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From: aflundi@mdl.sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin)
Subject: Re: useing floppies under 2.0.5
Message-ID: <1995Jul27.215811.9683@mdl.sandia.gov>
Reply-To: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin)
Organization: MDL, Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM
References: <3v0f77$dok@bronze.coil.com> <3v5ehf$llp@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <1995Jul27.141159.28319@mdl.sandia.gov>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 21:58:11 GMT
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In article <1995Jul27.141159.28319@mdl.sandia.gov>,
Alan F Lundin <aflundi@sandia.gov> wrote:
>
> [ ... ]
>floppies?  I notice that the error message indicates
>that mtools uses fd0c.  Perhaps I ought to recompile
>the mtools package so that it doesn't use fd0c?

I'm responding to my own post, but I did recompile
mtools to use /dev/rfd0.1440 and /dev/rfd0.720 and
it seems to work flawlessly now.  Perhaps the "ports"
mtools should be looked at or redone.

--alan
-- 
Alan Lundin <aflundi@sandia.gov>