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- From: cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Newbie Linuxer & misc. Qs (LONG!)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.113245@hammer.Prime.COM>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:32:45 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.220519.18078@sura.net> <5446@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> <1992Jul31.091432.11879@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Sender: cummings@hammer (Kevin Cummings)
- Organization: Prime Computer R&D
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- In article <1992Jul31.091432.11879@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>, callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:
- > In article <5446@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) writes:
- > >In article <1992Jul26.220519.18078@sura.net> vargish@sura.net (Nick Vargish) writes:
- > >>4. Mtools sometimes can't initialize my floppies, and sometimes can't
- > >> even see them (depending on what random numbers I'm using in
- > >> /etc/mtools).
- > >
- > >You should have
- > > A /dev/fd0 12 0 0 0
- > > B /dev/fd1 12 0 0 0
- > >for the floppy entries in /etc/mtools.
- >
- > Hmmm. I just left it as
- > A /dev/PS0
- > and did
- > ln /dev/fd0 /dev/PS0
- > and it works just fine for me.
-
- /dev/PS0 is supposed to be a 1.4 MB 3.5" disk driver.
- /dev/fd0 is supposed to be an auto-detecting disk size and format disk driver.
-
- So what you have done is make a link from a specific device name to the general
- driver. (Not as bad as the other way around I have to admit).
-
- This may be a quickfix, or a workaround until you understand what should have
- been done, but PLEASE don't go around giving this to other people. The
- confusion level about floppy disk drives is high enough without complicating
- it with mis-information. Thanx.
-
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