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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: How to mount a floppy?
Date: 15 Jan 1995 20:44:23 +0100
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Dean M. Phillips <dean@deanstoy.wa.com> wrote:
>For messdos file systems do:
>fdformat -f 1440 fd0
>mformat a:
>mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /fd3.5
Ooops, mformat is unfortunately sloppy. It does not add the usual
``0x55, 0xaa'' magic number at the end of the DOS super block (oh,
boot block, of course:), hence msdosfs will not recognize it as a
valid medium. Either format on a really dozz or fix mformat... hmm,
maybe i should fix & commit it...
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