VMware Server 1.0.0.
VMware Server Console 1.0.0 build-28343.
When I create a floppy image in the console and try to mount in a FreeBSD 6.1 guest it fails with a read error. The drive is detected on startup:
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
But mount causes a long delay and finally an error and quit. The floppy device seems to end up locked and I cannot shutdown FreeBSD completely afterwards.
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
g_vfs_done():fd0[READ(offset=65536, length=8192)]error = 5
If I try to reformat the disk another error occurs.
# newfs_msdos -f 1440 -L moo fd0
/dev/fd0: 2847 sectors in 2847 FAT12 clusters (512 bytes/cluster)
bps=512 spc=1 res=1 nft=2 rde=224 sec=2880 mid=0xf0 spf=9 spt=18 hds=2 hid=0
newfs_msdos: /dev/fd0: Input/output error
