At 22:50 Uhr +0200 14.9.2001, Matthew wrote:
>On Friday, September 14, 2001, at 09:12  pm, David Burgess wrote:
>
>> Short way:  use /dev/rfd0a when mount a floppy.  This is the 'raw'
>> (block) device, rather than the 'cooked' device (which can be as a
>> character-at-a-time device).  Also, unless you are mount an FFS or UFS
>> floppy, you will probably to include a '-t' type flag.  The '-t' will
>> vary depending one what is on the floppy.
>>
>> 'man mount' should give you the rest of the details.
>
>Thanks for the reponse, but no luck with it on my Quadra 650.

Right. The Quadra 650 comes with an unsupported  SWIM II, as all the 68040
machines other than the Quadra 700 (SWIM), the AVs (DMA-based controller,
unsupported) and the Quadra 9x0 (IOP, unsupported).

>I checked I had floppy support in the kernel.. and I do.
>
>sonic:/usr/src/sys/arch/mac68k/conf# mount -v -t msdos /dev/rfd0b
>~matthew/floppy
>exec: mount_msdos /dev/rfd0b /home/matthew/floppy
>mount_msdos: /dev/rfd0b on /home/matthew/floppy: Block device required
>
>What do you think the problem is likely to be?

1) No support for MFM

2) "rfdXY" is teh raw device. mount(8) wantsa block device, i.e. fdXY.

	hauke

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