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From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD, fd0d: hard error
Date: 9 Sep 1994 00:18:12 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
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Message-ID: <34o9k4$9j4@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
References: <33j9hp$41l@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> <34a91e$h2f@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> <34iv96$ik4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <34o49l$r32@rivendell.apana.org.au>
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In article <34o49l$r32@rivendell.apana.org.au> phil@rivendell.apana.org.au (Phil Homewood) writes:
>
>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).......
come on, it's a product name... "MS-DOS" ... you can say it.. :-)
>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 :)
I had thought someone (or a mapage, or something) stated that the
MSDOSFS (or PCFS) wasn't guaranteed to work with anything other
than MS-DOS 4.0 formatted devices? I may be crazy...
-Andrew
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