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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!nsisrv!news1.gsfc.nasa.gov!cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov!dc From: dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Cottingham) Subject: Trouble with mtools Message-ID: <C4vp6n.72@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD USA Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 22:59:07 GMT Lines: 18 I can't get the mtools to work. mread works fine reading the A drive. If I say "mcd", it dutifully answers "A:/" (or "A:\", whatever). That's the whole list of what works. If I say mdir, or "mcd b:/", or anything else, it says "init: open: no such file or directory" (paraphrasing from memory). Inspection of init.c indicates that this means it can't open the floppy dev for the given reason. Inspection of devices.c indicates that the filenames in question are /dev/rfd0a and /dev/rfd1a. They exist on my system, I checked. Any ideas what the problem is? In case it matters, this is your basic 386sx AMI bios box. The floppies are hooked to an Adaptec 1542B. Please reply via email, I will summarize if anyone asks. Thanks, Dave Cottingham dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov