On 29 Jul 2006, at 19:59, Yasir Malik wrote:

> > That looks same as here other than I have an extra line for fd1
> >
> >  inserts 1.44 dos boot floppy
> >  mkdir /tmp/floppy
> >  mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /tmp/floppy
> >  ls /tmp/floppy
> >
> > works ok.
> >
> That's exactly what I'm doing!  I have AMD setup with setting for
> /mnt/floppy, and when I cd into it, I get the same error as mounting
> the floppy manually ("invalid argument").
> 
> > I assume you've checked that /tmp/floppy exists (just in case you
> > have same setup as me where /tmp is cleared out at bootup)?
> >
> Yes.
> 
> > Only real problem here is I find 1.44MB media very unreliable and
> > *nix seems more particular than Windows on what's acceptable. I have
> > 20yr old 5.25" floppies that are still readable whilst brand new
> > 1.44MB seem to go bad very quickly.
> >
> I first noticed I could no longer mount floppies in 2.0_BETA.  Has any
> thing changed in the floppy device since 1.6.1?

I can't remember from NetBSD 2, but on 3.0 I didn't have the 1.2MB 
fd1 defined in bios when 3.0 was installed and it wasn't usuable 
after bios was set correctly. I might have needed to MAKEDEV or 
similar to get it working (I can't remember and it's only a few weeks 
back).

David