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From: michael@jester.GUN.de (Michael Gerhards)
Subject: Re: Mtools & 2.88MB experience
References: <rcpt.760357720@rwa.urc.tue.nl>
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 08:17:14 GMT
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In article <rcpt.760357720@rwa.urc.tue.nl> , Piet Tutelaers wrote:
> A while ago I reported some problems I had with my DECpc booting 3.5"
> 1.44MB floppies. These problems were caused by the fact that in my setup
> the 3.5" 2.88MB (default on DECpc) drivers were selected. (Stupid if you
> know this!) But now I am running with the 3.5" 1.44MB drivers and still
> can't read 3.5" 720kb floppies. I get hard errors. Does that mean that
> mtools only supports the disk drives you have selected at boot time?
Last I heard was that mtools supports only HD-floppies on FreeBSD .
But support for DD-floppies is under development.
Michael
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