From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jul 16 12:23:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA27798 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (slip139-92-42-139.ut.nl.ibm.net [139.92.42.139]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA27740; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhs@localhost) by vector.jhs.no_domain (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA15578; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:46:11 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:46:11 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199607152146.XAA15578@vector.jhs.no_domain> To: jmz@freebsd.org cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: mtools: /usr/local/etc/mtools.conf + tracks=80 heads=2 sectors=18 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd. Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany Phone: +49.89.268616 Fax: +49.89.2608126 (later) Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Mailer: EXMH 1.6.7, PGP available Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To: jmz@FreeBSD.org cc: ports@freebsd.org FYI I've just reinstalled mtools, mformat a: no longer worked. I extended my /usr/local/etc/mtools.conf to become drive a: file="/dev/fd0" exclusive tracks=80 heads=2 sectors=18 it now works again, but man 5 mtools says If no geometry information is supplied in the con- figuration file, no initial configuration is done. On Linux, this is not really needed either, as the configurable devices are able to autodetect the disk type accurately enough (for most common for- mats) to read the boot sector. If this breakage/non sensing is seen by others, I suggest make install be extended to append a tracks=80 heads=2 sectors=18 PS I'm also seeing new errors when accesing 720K flops on a 1.4 drive, I'm running a system installed from world ~2 weeks ago. (Mtools rebuilt with today's current) Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/