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From: dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: MS-DOS can't see disk, BSD can
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Date: 5 Aug 1994 13:57:42 -0500
Organization: If it don't say BSD, it ain't UNIX...
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Richard Tobin (richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: Can anyone suggest why MSDOS would be unable to access a disk, in the
: following sense:
: - fdisk hangs for about 30 seconds, then says "unable to access disk 2"
: (disk 1 and 3 are fine)
: - os-bs hanges for about a minute, then exits with a message "can't
: read partition table".
Its a message from the almighty...it means, "Use BSD not dos"... ;)
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