On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:18:54 -0400 (EDT), Yasir Malik
<ymalik@cs.stevens.edu> wrote:

> > Try...
> >
> > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0b /mnt/floppy
> >
> >       ...with a 1.4 Mbyte floppy in the drive, or...
> >
> > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0f /mnt/floppy
> >
> >   ...with a 720 Kbyte floppy.  I'm assuming i386 and a 3.5"
> > diskette drive.
> >
> Thanks, but none of that works.  I've been mounting floppies since 1.6.1 
> using /dev/fd0a (what's the difference between the letters?).  I noticed 
> this stopped working in 2.0_BETA.
> 
Could you post all dmesgs related to your floppy and its controller:

	grep ^fd /var/run/dmesg.boot

is probably best.  


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb