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From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Cannot mount floppy formatted with mformat
Date: 25 May 1994 21:06:38 GMT
Organization: Kendall Square Research
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ah@alvman.RoBIN.de (Andreas Haakh) writes:
>Has enybode else encountered this problem. Whenever I format a floppy with
>mformat I cann access it with mtools, can read it from DOS but I'm unable
>to mout it (mount -t pcfs /dev/fd?a).

What OS are you running?  A long time ago, NetBSD had this problem because
it checked for some particular values in an optional boot header on the
MSDOS disk image.  At some point in the distant past, that check got taken
out (I think well before NetBSD-0.9).