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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: How to configure mtools? [soln] Date: 17 Dec 1993 05:35:32 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2ergf4$cm5@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <SWILDNER.93Dec11184139@channelz.GUN.de> <2em8ha$t78@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <SWILDNER.93Dec17013911@channelz.gun.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <SWILDNER.93Dec17013911@channelz.gun.de>, Sascha Wildner <swildner@channelz.GUN.de> wrote: >And as another respondent already pointed out, the problem seems to be >that the fd driver (FreeBSD...don't know about NetBSD) doesn't support >all of MSDOS's disk formats. > >Now does anybody know if this will change in the future (I remember >reading something about a new fd driver)? > It's being changed (and a lively discussion on how to implement the name-space is going on right now) current in the FreeBSD tree. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me