From: Aaron W Morris (aaronmorris@MINDSPRING.COM)
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 13:36:38 EST
JOSEPH KREMBLAS wrote:
> Looks to me like you destroyed the layout of the floppy disk when you were
> asked to destroy it. You shouldn't be mounting a floppy disk anyway. Use the
> dosread, dosdir, and doswrite commands to perform operations on the floppy
> drive.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Paul. Vanchope
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:29 AM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: meet Problems when try to mount the floppy disk
>
>
> Insert a floppy disk into the floppy disk drive.
> Execute the following command in order to mount the floppy disk to a fs:
> #mkfs -V jfs /dev/fd0
> mkfs: destroy /dev/fd0 (yes)? y
> Device /dev/fd0:
> Standard empty filesystem
> Size: 2880 512-byte (UBSIZE) blocks
> Initial Inodes: 512
> #mkdir /flo
> #mount -o nointegrity /dev/fd0 /flo
> mount: 0506-324 Cannot mount /dev/fd0 on /flo: There is an input or output
> error. Then i attempt to read file in the floppy disk: #dosread -D /dev/fd0
> readme.txt chap.txt
> read: /dev/fd0: There is an input or output error.
> Abort, Retry, Ignore?
>
> Why the "mount" and "dosread" all fail ? (In Windows 2000 Server, the files
> in the floppy disk could be successfully read out).
You can also use the mtools that comes with AIX 5. With mtools, you
have commands available that emulate old dos commands:
mdir
mformat
mcopy
mmove
mmd
mattrib
All you do is reference the floppy drive like a dos drive letter, ie
"mcopy file.txt a:" or "mdir a:".
-- Aaron W Morris <aaronmorris@mindspring.com> (decep)
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