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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Questions about SGI floppy drive
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Jul28.184356.18370@cs.wayne.edu> <nsji454@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 02:01:35 GMT
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- In <nsji454@zuni.esd.sgi.com> dwong@sgi.com (David Wong) writes:
-
- | In article <1992Jul28.184356.18370@cs.wayne.edu> atems@hal.physics.wayne.edu (Dale Atems) writes:
- | >I am considering buying SGI's internal floppy drive for an Indigo.
- | >Does anyone have any experience with this drive? I intend to use it
- | >mainly to archive data generated by software running under IRIX.
- ...
- | >2). Do you have to be superuser and use the mount(1M) command to mount
- | >floppies, or will msdosd do this for you even if they are efs volumes?
- |
- | yes, you have to be superuser to mount a EFS floppy. msdosd in the current
- | release won't work on EFS floppy.
-
- Ooops; David is more up to speed that I am on this. I *thought* it
- worked in 4.0.5, but if David says it doesn't, you'll have to wait
- until a future release.
-
- Also note that we don't make block devices by default for the floppy,
- partly because the efs floppy isn't terribly well supported (don't
- eject it while it is mounted, for example...).
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