Kfloppy error

[Lsayre]

When I try to run "kfloppy" to format my disks, I get the following error message:

"Internal error: device not properly defined"

Here is how my fstab file reads for the floppy:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0 auto rw,noauto 0 0

Where is my floppy device "not correctly defined"?

[madman]

Did you mount the floppy first? Go to Computer -> Drives -> Right Click floppy -> Mount

[Lsayre]

Did you mount the floppy first? Go to Computer -> Drives -> Right Click floppy -> Mount

Yes, I can mount the floppy, and it reads/writes just fine, but this changes nothing regarding the error I'm getting in Kfloppy when I attempt to format disks.

[TerryP]

Did you mount the floppy first? Go to Computer -> Drives -> Right Click floppy -> Mount

Yes, I can mount the floppy, and it reads/writes just fine, but this changes nothing regarding the error I'm getting in Kfloppy, when I attempt to format disks.

Kfloppy never worked on mine ether, I had to do a format via command line. (Still working out how to force it to a 1720KB FAT32 stiffy)

[Lsayre]

The worst part is that I really like PC-BSD. Having used Linux since discovering Suse 5.0 a good while ago, I'm enjoying my first foray into UNIX. All of the many derivations of Liniux I've tried work just fine with Kfloppy, so it is strange that this glitch showed up in my install of PC-BSD.

One other oddity of PC-BSD is that in some (particularly Java) applications I have no backspace key at all (and the backspace arrow doesn't work either), which is another thing I find quite odd and seriously annoying.

If I could figure out how to get Kfloppy going, how to get destructive backspace and the arrow keys working, and how to get Shockwave Flash running, PC-BSD would qualify as just about perfect for me. Until then, it is just a toy.

[TerryP]

The worst part is that I really like PC-BSD. Having used Linux since discovering Suse 5.0 a good while ago, I'm enjoying my first foray into UNIX. All of the many derivations of Liniux I've tried work just fine with Kfloppy, so it is strange that this glitch showed up in my install of PC-BSD.

One other oddity of PC-BSD is that in some (particularly Java) applications I have no backspace key at all (and the backspace arrow doesn't work either), which is another thing I find quite odd and seriously annoying.

If I could figure out how to get Kfloppy going, how to get destructive backspace and the arrow keys working, and how to get Shockwave Flash running, PC-BSD would qualify as just about perfect for me. Until then, it is just a toy.

I think it has to do with ether the autodection of the drive or /w the FreeBSD settings for floppies in FreeBSD 6.0