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- From: schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Schneck)
- Subject: Re: floppy drive rx26 on a personal decstation?
- Message-ID: <schneck.713736949@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
- References: <1992Aug12.202405.2838@ennews.eas.asu.edu> <1992Aug12.214510.18423@PA.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:15:49 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
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- You can also use the "mtools" package posted do comp.sources.misc some
- time ago to read/write ms-dumb format floppies in the DEC. This also
- saves you some headache with special files and suid progs on the disk.
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- \Bernhard.
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