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From: jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Subject: Re: [ANSWER to question] How to format a floppy for 386bsd
Message-ID: <1993Aug31.130115.6552@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Sender: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
References: <1993Aug31.050228.22034@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 13:01:15 GMT
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From article <1993Aug31.050228.22034@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, by terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C):
> In article <1993Aug30.212058.15141@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs) writes:
>>Can one low-level format a floppy in NetBSD-0.9?
>
> Yes. You have to have a patch that NetBSD has not integrated, even though
> it was posted on 05 Nov 1992. It was one of the (400 or so) patches I didn't
> get to in the original (non-beta) patchkit before I handed it off -- apparently
> it got lost in the noise.
>
> From: Yoshihiro Masuda
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
> Subject: [386bsd] physicaly formatter for floppy disk
> Message-ID: <1992Nov5.073156.29595@rokugo.co.jp>
>
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! *kiss* *kiss*
That's just the answer I was looking for. The world is a wonderful
place again. :)
--
John D. Boggs jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us
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