From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 10:09:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA22899 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:09:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay5.UU.NET (relay5.UU.NET [192.48.96.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA22892 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:09:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uucp5.UU.NET by relay5.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: uucp5.UU.NET [192.48.96.36]) id QQbcwy28580; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 13:09:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from accom.UUCP by uucp5.UU.NET with UUCP/RMAIL ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 13:09:30 -0400 Received: from accom (accom [192.20.200.100]) by fugue (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA21466 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:48:30 -0700 Received: from rondo.accom.com (rondo [192.20.202.124]) by accom (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA23441 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:48:27 -0700 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 09:48:27 -0700 From: Tom McCurdie Message-Id: <199608151648.JAA23441@accom> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: mtools configuration Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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