Hi friends,
I am using VirtualBox version 4.1, Windows vista 32 bit as a host, and FreeBSD 8.2 as a guest. I have enabled floppy drive in the motherboard settings, placed a floppy image containing data. However, I cannot access that data, there seems to be something wrong with the configuration of the floppy drive under FreeBSD.
There is no "fd0" file under /dev. I only see two files starting with f under /dev. fd(directory) and fido. The fd directory contains three character special files "0,1,2".
When I try execute the command
[cmd=]mount -t vfat /dev/fd/0 /mnt[/cmd] it says operation not supported by device.
as well as
[cmd=]mount -t msdos /dev/fd/0 /mnt[/cmd]
The output of dmesg about the floppy drive is
I had the same problem under linux and managed to solve it by running the command
[cmd=]modprobe floppy[/cmd] which loaded the floppy drive into kernel.
The floppy drive also works alright under Windows guest
So how can I load the floppy drive into the FreeBSD kernel, looking forward to your kind replies!
Thanks in advance!
I am using VirtualBox version 4.1, Windows vista 32 bit as a host, and FreeBSD 8.2 as a guest. I have enabled floppy drive in the motherboard settings, placed a floppy image containing data. However, I cannot access that data, there seems to be something wrong with the configuration of the floppy drive under FreeBSD.
There is no "fd0" file under /dev. I only see two files starting with f under /dev. fd(directory) and fido. The fd directory contains three character special files "0,1,2".
When I try execute the command
[cmd=]mount -t vfat /dev/fd/0 /mnt[/cmd] it says operation not supported by device.
as well as
[cmd=]mount -t msdos /dev/fd/0 /mnt[/cmd]
The output of dmesg about the floppy drive is
Code:
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: does not respond
device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6
[cmd=]modprobe floppy[/cmd] which loaded the floppy drive into kernel.
The floppy drive also works alright under Windows guest
So how can I load the floppy drive into the FreeBSD kernel, looking forward to your kind replies!
Thanks in advance!