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- From: heiney@wsl.dec.com (Bob Heiney)
- Subject: Re: floppy drive rx26 on a personal decstation?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.214510.18423@PA.dec.com>
- Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News)
- Organization: Western Software Lab
- References: <1992Aug12.202405.2838@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 21:45:10 GMT
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- >My guess is that when I pop in one of the two disks they provide you with
- >that you have to use newfs to format the disk, and then use mount to get to
- >it. Every time I attempt this using the rx26 pattern in disktab I get an
- >error involving a failure to access the partition table.
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- You need to use fddisk(8) to format the disk, and then run newfs. For example,
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- fddisk -fmt /dev/rfd0a # format the disk
- newfs /dev/rfd0a rx26 # add a filesystem
- mount /dev/fd0a /floppy # mount it onto /floppy
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- Bob Heiney
- Technical Consultant
- Digital Equipment Corporation, US Desktop Sales, Palo Alto, CA
- All opinions expressed are mine, and not necessarily those of my employer
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