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- From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
- Subject: Re: Macintosh Floppies under 3.0
- References: <1992Sep14.110949.20840@dxcern.cern.ch>
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- Reply-To: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:49:26 GMT
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- Erich Schaefer writes
- -> Hi
- ->
- -> I have the problem under System 3.0 that one machine can read Macintosh
- -> Floppies (and initialize) as described in the manual. I did build the a
- system
- -> from this hard disk (on a 105 MB internal disk) and this new system can't
- read
- -> the Mac floppies anymore. It is not the hardware, because if I connect an
- -> external disk with system 3.0 to this station it suddenly c a n read Mac
- -> floppies. Another computer with a system, which was upgraded from 2.1 to 3.0
- -> with the CD rom doesn't recognize Mac flopies either and allows only to
- -> initialize DOS and NeXT formatted floppies.
- ->
- -> Does anyone know what's going on? Is there a switch I have to set in the
- -> system?
- ->
-
- just a guess:
-
- check /usr/filesystems and make sure there is a mac.fs directory there.
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