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- From: juengst@boss1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst)
- Subject: Re: Help on floppy drive access in 386bsd
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.140608.27441@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
- Sender: juengst@boss1 (Henry G. Juengst)
- Organization: Universit"at Bonn, Informatikinstitut, R"omerstr 154, W-5300 Bonn 1
- References: <1992Aug20.161801.29526@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:06:08 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Aug20.161801.29526@news.columbia.edu>, cl45@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ching-Tse Liu) writes:
- > Hi,
- > I have installed 386bsd on my hard drive. When I tried to do
- > mount /dev/fd0a /mnt, an error message would come out --
- >
- > "fd0: hard error (ST0 44 ST1 2 ST2 0 ST3 1C cyl 1 hd 7 sec 2) ."
- >
- > However, I could still do 'ls /mnt ' etc, but the error messages
- > kept coming up. I didn't have any problem during the installation.
- > When it boots, the following (reguarding to floppy) appears on the
- > screen --
- >
- > "fd0 drives 0: 1.44M, 1: 1.2 M at 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on isa ."
- >
- > Another question is: How do I read MS-DOS partitions and MS-DOS
- > floppy disks. I don't know how to use those mtools.
- >
- > Thanks for any help.
- >
- > ***********************
- > --cliu@merlin.appmath.columbia.edu * CLifton T. Liu *
- > --cl45@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu ***********************
- >
-
- I get these errors when I mount a write protected disk without -r option.
- It's ok with -r option. I don't that.
-
- Henry
-
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- I'm only speaking for myself, but not for anybody else !
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