I bought a cheap 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive Connector 34 PIN 34P to USB Cable Adapter PCB Board so that I could connect one of my many ancient floppy drives to my modern systems without pulling out the ribbon cables and making room for the drive in the chassis. I loaded in my DOS 6.22 floppy and stuck it in my Dell Optiplex 755 and told it to boot the USB floppy. DOS setup started just fine. So, the drive performs as a USB floppy. But, when I boot into FreeBSD and attach the drive, FreeBSD tells me:
Which seems like a typical USB drive to me. fdformat and such don't recognize the drive as being a floppy. Is there a way to get it recognized as a floppy?
but,
Help, as always, is much appreciated.
Will
Code:
umass0: <TEACV0.0 TEACV0.0, class 0/0, rev 1.10/2.00, addr 2> on usbus1
umass0: UFI over CBI; quirks = 0x0000
umass0:5:0: Attached to scbus5
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus5 target 0 lun 0
da0: <TEAC USB UF000x 0.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI device
da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
Which seems like a typical USB drive to me. fdformat and such don't recognize the drive as being a floppy. Is there a way to get it recognized as a floppy?
geom disk list
shows:
Code:
Geom name: da0
Providers:
1. Name: da0
Mediasize: 1474560 (1.4M)
Sectorsize: 512
Mode: r0w0e0
descr: TEAC USB UF000x
ident: (null)
rotationrate: unknown
fwsectors: 32
fwheads: 64
but,
mount /dev/da0 /mnt
doesn't seem to work:
Code:
mount: /dev/da0: No such file or directory
Help, as always, is much appreciated.
Will