Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 12:09:21 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: jazepeda@pacbell.net Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Speaking of ATAisms... Message-ID: <200001261109.MAA41212@Magelan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001252307440.755-100000@localhost>
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On 25 Jan, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> I haven't been able to mount an msdos (FAT16) formattted zip disk (well
> any FAT16 formatted zip disk) for quite a while. Currently I'm trying to
> mount afd0s4, but no such luck (I think the latest error is something
> about reading the partition table). The wd driver used to grok the same
> disks. Any thoughts?
As a workaround use mtools (it's faster than msdosfs anyway [at least I
noticed this with wfd]).
mtools.conf:
---snip---
drive z: file="/dev/afd0s4" partition=4
---snip---
^^^^^^^^^^^
This is important.
Bye,
Alexander.
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