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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!rrz.uni-koeln.de!teralon!easix!jester!michael From: michael@jester.GUN.de (Michael Gerhards) Subject: Re: Mtools & 2.88MB experience References: <rcpt.760357720@rwa.urc.tue.nl> Organization: private - member of the Individual Network e.V. Date: Sun, 6 Feb 1994 08:17:14 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <CKsn15.138@jester.GUN.de> Lines: 16 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 -- michael@jester.GUN.de * Michael Gerhards * Voice: +49 2131 82238 * Preussenstrasse 59 * Modem: +49 2131 80923 * Germany 41464 Neuss * Login guest, no passwd