From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 26 4:37:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mout0.freenet.de (mout0.freenet.de [194.97.50.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B04EB14EDC for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 04:37:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netchild@leidinger.net) Received: from [62.104.201.6] (helo=mx0.01019freenet.de) by mout0.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12DRhS-0004JK-00; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:37:30 +0100 Received: from [213.6.57.196] (helo=Magelan.Leidinger.net) by mx0.01019freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12DRhN-0006Sq-00; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:37:28 +0100 Received: from Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA41212; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 12:09:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from netchild@Leidinger.net) Message-Id: <200001261109.MAA41212@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 12:09:21 +0100 (CET) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: Speaking of ATAisms... To: jazepeda@pacbell.net Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- A PBS mind in an MTV world. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander+Home @ Leidinger.net Key fingerprint = 7423 F3E6 3A7E B334 A9CC B10A 1F5F 130A A638 6E7E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message