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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.duke.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!paladin.american.edu!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu!smasilam From: smasilam@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu (Senthilamudhan Masilamani) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: freebsd floppy mount probs Date: 13 Sep 1994 02:01:26 GMT Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA Lines: 26 Message-ID: <35315m$a3a@romulus.ucs.uoknor.edu> References: <34t3he$45q@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <34ub6c$aff@engnews2.eng.sun.com> <3504p3INN17d@godzilla.zeta.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.15.20.198 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Bruce Evans (bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au) wrote: : In article <34ub6c$aff@engnews2.eng.sun.com>, : Jack F. Vogel <jackv@orpheus.Eng.Sun.COM> wrote: : >... : >HOW did you make the floppies? I had EXACTLY the same problem, it was : >because I used a PCFS mount onto my Sparcstation. What was also WEIRD : >was that DOS was perfectly happy with the disks, still after I : >reformated the damn things and copied the files back they were : >OK. Fortunately I only made a few of the 'bindist' floppies in : >this manner, the others worked OK. : pcfs is fussy about the boot signature bytes 0x55, 0xaa being at the : of the first sector of the disk. Some format programs apparently : don't write these bytes. They are really part of the boot program : and shouldn't be expected by pcfs. : -- : Bruce Evans bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au I figured out what the problem was. It was as Bruce says above. The odd thing is that only Norton Disk Found the problem with the boot signature, and fixed it. They were preformatted F**i disks. All 30 or so that I bought were like that, but NDD fixed them. good thing I didnt dump dos altogether! Still lot of things Unix doesnt have and will probably never will that dos does it seems. Senthil