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From: swildner@channelz.GUN.de (Sascha Wildner)
Subject: Re: How to configure mtools? [soln]
In-Reply-To: lm@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU's message of 15 Dec 1993 05:49:30 GMT
References: <SWILDNER.93Dec11184139@channelz.GUN.de> <2em8ha$t78@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Sender: swildner@channelz.GUN.de (Sascha Wildner)
Organization: Frogs with dirty little lips
Date: 17 Dec 1993 00:39:10 GMT
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In article <2em8ha$t78@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> lm@yallara.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Luke Mewburn) writes:
I hacked mtools 2.0.7 a long time ago for this. I actually shoe-horned
someone else's patches for 2.0.5 into 2.0.7, and added some extra
functionality to mtools. Note that this was for 386BSD 0.1, but my
mtools binaries compiled back then still worked when I went to netbsd
0.8... I don't guarantee that it works for newer *BSD revisions, but
give it a go anyway.
Well, I applied these patches to my mtools source and recompiled it
but an 'mdir a:' with a 360KB floppy inserted still produces a lot of
hard errors, operation timeouts, etc.
And as another respondent already pointed out, the problem seems to be
that the fd driver (FreeBSD...don't know about NetBSD) doesn't support
all of MSDOS's disk formats.
Now does anybody know if this will change in the future (I remember
reading something about a new fd driver)?
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