mtools and 2.2.0

Romano Giannetti (romano@dea.icai.upco.es)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:41:36 +0100


Not to be really heavy :),

but mformat stopped to work sometime in the past. Another candidate
for the Changes file?

(0)pern:~% mformat a:
mformat: Non-removable media is not supported (You must tell the
complete geometry of the disk, either in /etc/mtools or on the command
line)

(1)pern:~% grep drive\ a /etc/mtools.conf
drive a: file="/dev/fd0" exclusive

Jan 27 16:36:51 pern kernel: floppy0: Disk type is undefined after disk change
Jan 27 16:36:52 pern kernel: floppy0: Auto-detected floppy type H1440 in fd0

(0)pern:~% mformat -V
Mtools version 3.9.1, dated 14 May 1998
configured with the following options: enable-xdf disable-vold
disable-new-vold disable-debug enable-raw-term

(0)pern:~% mformat x:
(0)pern:~% grep x: /etc/mtools.conf
drive x: file="/dev/fd0H1440" 1.44m exclusive

Something changed in ioctl?
Romano

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