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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!kralizec.zeta.org.au!godzilla.zeta.org.au!not-for-mail From: bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: freebsd floppy mount probs Date: 12 Sep 1994 09:44:35 +1000 Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney - +61-2-837-1183, v.32bis v.42bis Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3504p3INN17d@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <34t3he$45q@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <34ub6c$aff@engnews2.eng.sun.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: godzilla.zeta.org.au Keywords: floppy freebsd problem 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