Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:48:27 -0700 From: Tom McCurdie <tbm@accom.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: mtools configuration Message-ID: <199608151648.JAA23441@accom>
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I recently upgraded my PC from FreeBSD 2.1 to 2.1.5 and my mtools (mdir, mcopy, etc.) stopped working. It was complaining about "Input/output error", and "Can't init A:". After reading all the documentation I could find, I tried editing my mtools.conf file, and changed the device name to /dev/fd0.1440 and it began to work. In order to make it work for different capacity floppies I have added another description for A: which specifies /dev/fd0.720 as the device. This seems to work now, although I get errors (which the man page for mtools says I can safely ignore) for each device specification which is not applicable. My question is: Did I do the right thing? If so, you might want to update the documentation to indicate that this file may need to be edited. It seems that the mtools.conf (it is in /usr/local/etc on my system) is a new feature of mtools-3.0, as I can't find it on a system running the version included with the FreeBSD 2.1 packages. Tom McCurdie Accom, Inc. tom@accom.com (415) 328-3818
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