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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!zib-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!nebsy.nt.fh-koeln.de!rrz.uni-koeln.de!teralon!channelz!swildner 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$t78@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Sender: swildner@channelz.GUN.de (Sascha Wildner) Organization: Frogs with dirty little lips Date: 17 Dec 1993 00:39:10 GMT Message-ID: <SWILDNER.93Dec17013911@channelz.GUN.de> Lines: 25 In article <2em8ha$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)? -- Sascha Wildner, Am Druvendriesch 27, 50354 Huerth, Germany GC d--- p--- c++ l- m-- s-/- !g w+ t+ r x+