From: A. V. Le Blanc (zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk)
Date: 04/22/93


From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Subject: Re: mformat dos not work
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 07:53:28 GMT

In article <1r3fvhINNoj5@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de> ph11mlar@sbusol.rz.uni-sb.de (Arthur Recktenwald) writes:
>I use mtools. Everything works fine exept mformat.
>I get the following message:
>Non-removable media is not supported
>
>What is wrong with my system?

The problem is the message. If your /etc/mtools file has the entry

     A /dev/fd0 12 0 0 0

this makes mtools use whatever values it can figure out, which is usually
the most convenient thing to do. I usually add to my /etc/mtools a line
like this:

     G /dev/fd0H1440 12 80 2 18
     H /dev/fd1h1200 12 80 2 15

which allows me to 'mformat g:' or 'mformat h:' without any messing about
at the time.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk
which allows me to mformat g: or h: without messing about.