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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!news.amherst.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.byu.edu!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!yale!yale.edu!noc.near.net!hopscotch.ksr.com!jfw From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Cannot mount floppy formatted with mformat Date: 25 May 1994 21:06:38 GMT Organization: Kendall Square Research Lines: 9 Message-ID: <2s0eku$bhp@hopscotch.ksr.com> References: <2rhveg$4bh@alvman.RoBIN.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: kaos.ksr.com ah@alvman.RoBIN.de (Andreas Haakh) writes: >Has enybode else encountered this problem. Whenever I format a floppy with >mformat I cann access it with mtools, can read it from DOS but I'm unable >to mout it (mount -t pcfs /dev/fd?a). What OS are you running? A long time ago, NetBSD had this problem because it checked for some particular values in an optional boot header on the MSDOS disk image. At some point in the distant past, that check got taken out (I think well before NetBSD-0.9).