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Mtools & 2.88MB experience
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Michael Gerhards
Feb 6, 1994, 3:17:14 AM2/6/94
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In article <rcpt.76...@rwa.urc.tue.nl> , Piet Tutelaers wrote:
> A while ago I reported some problems I had with my DECpc booting 3.5"
> 1.44MB floppies. These problems were caused by the fact that in my setup
> the 3.5" 2.88MB (default on DECpc) drivers were selected. (Stupid if you
> know this!) But now I am running with the 3.5" 1.44MB drivers and still
> can't read 3.5" 720kb floppies. I get hard errors. Does that mean that
> mtools only supports the disk drives you have selected at boot time?
> A while ago I reported some problems I had with my DECpc booting 3.5"
> 1.44MB floppies. These problems were caused by the fact that in my setup
> the 3.5" 2.88MB (default on DECpc) drivers were selected. (Stupid if you
> know this!) But now I am running with the 3.5" 1.44MB drivers and still
> can't read 3.5" 720kb floppies. I get hard errors. Does that mean that
> mtools only supports the disk drives you have selected at boot time?
Last I heard was that mtools supports only HD-floppies on FreeBSD .
But support for DD-floppies is under development.
Michael
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