FBSD 8.2 and USB Floppies
Hey everyone, I have a FBSD 8.2 install. I've been trying to mount DOS formatted floppy disks via a USB floppy drive, and have been getting the following error every time: cannot mount /dev/da0: invalid argument I was curious to see what would happen if I created a UFS filesystem on the floppy and tried to mount it. So, I issued the following command: newfs /dev/da0 It was successful. I then tried to mount the new filesystem (mount /dev/da0 /mnt), and got the same error: invalid argument. Does FBSD have a problem mounting USB floppy disks? It's not a big deal, as my other USB storage devices seem to work, and as I have an ordinary floppy drive I can try, but that curious part of me wants to know why this isn't working. I can provide dmesg output, if necessary. Thanks! James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FBSD 8.2 and USB Floppies
On Monday 18 July 2011 19:45:27 James Colannino wrote: > > newfs /dev/da0 > > It was successful. I then tried to mount the new filesystem (mount > /dev/da0 /mnt), and got the same error: invalid argument. Does FBSD > have a problem mounting USB floppy disks? It's not a big deal, as my > other USB storage devices seem to work, and as I have an ordinary floppy > drive I can try, but that curious part of me wants to know why this > isn't working. > Have you tried: mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt Peg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FBSD 8.2 and USB Floppies
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:57:02 +0100, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: > On Monday 18 July 2011 19:45:27 James Colannino wrote: > > > > newfs /dev/da0 > > > > It was successful. I then tried to mount the new filesystem (mount > > /dev/da0 /mnt), and got the same error: invalid argument. Does FBSD > > have a problem mounting USB floppy disks? It's not a big deal, as my > > other USB storage devices seem to work, and as I have an ordinary floppy > > drive I can try, but that curious part of me wants to know why this > > isn't working. > > > > Have you tried: > > mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt You can alternatively use the "most portable file system" which isn't even a file system: it is tar. I've been using this approach among different UNIX, Linux and Solaris systems that didn't have network connections. The approach on FreeBSD is this: # fdformat -y /dev/da0 # tar cvf /dev/da0 files... and on the target system: # tar xvf /dev/da0 Add compression (z and j) if required. In this example, da0 represents the USB floppy drive; a regular one would be /dev/fd0. (Device names vary among UNIX and Linux systems.) Although this approach doesn't allow you to mount MS-DOS formatted floppies, it's a good check to see if writing and reading of the media works as intended. For the mount_msdos command mentioned above, check if you need additional masking flags as this file system doesn't understand UNIX permissions (and therefore files are often +x). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FBSD 8.2 and USB Floppies
On 07/18/11 11:57, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: On Monday 18 July 2011 19:45:27 James Colannino wrote: newfs /dev/da0 It was successful. I then tried to mount the new filesystem (mount /dev/da0 /mnt), and got the same error: invalid argument. Does FBSD have a problem mounting USB floppy disks? It's not a big deal, as my other USB storage devices seem to work, and as I have an ordinary floppy drive I can try, but that curious part of me wants to know why this isn't working. Have you tried: mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt Not sure if this would work with a UFS filesystem :) I did try this when the disk was formatted with a DOS filesystem, however, and I still got the same error. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
