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From: phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD, fd0d: hard error
Date: 8 Sep 1994 22:47:17 GMT
Organization: Rivendell - APANA Brisbane.
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Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote:
: I find that to get the install floppies to work ALL the time, I have to
: reformat under DOS every time I re-write them. Again, this could be
: a picky driver, but it seems to do the trick.
I've noticed this (or a possibly related problem) with my install set
(and other MSDOG disks).......
PCFS won't mount the disks ("Invalid Argument"), but the mtools have no
problem with them. It appears they have been formatted with a
different format command, as far as I can see.
Haven't yet had the chance to od the disk images yet :)
Phil.
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Phil Homewood phil@rivendell.apana.org.au
APANA Brisbane Regional Co-Ordinator brisbane@apana.org.au
"Oh my God, there's an axe in my head!"