From: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
Date: 07/07/92 

From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Subject: Re: mtools does not work under 0.96c !!!
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1992 11:05:55 GMT

In article <david.710485901@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) writes:
> /etc/mtools contains
>
> A /dev/fd0
>
> however mcopy a:\* . prints an error about not having enough information
> about A!

That's right. You have to tell it what FAT type is being used and that it's
allowed to get the missing information from the floppy itself:

A /dev/fd0 12 0 0 0

(This bypasss some sanity checks in Mtools, but I think it's still
sufficiently save that nobody will notice.)

- Werner 

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