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From: chrish@cats.ucsc.edu (Chris Haidinyak)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: FreeBSD-2.0 problem with copying MSDOS files to/from the floppy drive.
Date: 23 Jan 1995 17:59:45 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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Message-ID: <3g0qqh$t7i@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
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Two problems to report :
1.) When copying binary files to an MSDOS floppy diskette, they
get mangled. I mount the floppy diskette using the following
command :
mount_msdos /dev/fd0a /ados
or
mount_msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /ados
2.) When exchanging diskettes after a FreeBSD-2.0 write, the
system doesn't recognize that the data has changed. Stupid
question but do I have to run a command to "freshen" the
files FreeBSD sees?
Does anyone know of a utility to copy MSDOS files to/from a
FreeBSD 2.0 disk slice? I know that BSDI had the "m" utilities and
I liked them enough to use them when I used BSDI. Otherwise, can
someone direct me to a solution to my problems?
Thank you, Chris