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Article #1216Re: floppy drive rx26 on a personal decstation?
From: Bob Heiney
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:45
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:45
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>My guess is that when I pop in one of the two disks they provide you with >that you have to use newfs to format the disk, and then use mount to get to >it. Every time I attempt this using the rx26 pattern in disktab I get an >error involving a failure to access the partition table. You need to use fddisk(8) to format the disk, and then run newfs. For example, fddisk -fmt /dev/rfd0a # format the disk newfs /dev/rfd0a rx26 # add a filesystem mount /dev/fd0a /floppy # mount it onto /floppy -- Bob Heiney Technical Consultant Digital Equipment Corporation, US Desktop Sales, Palo Alto, CA All opinions expressed are mine, and not necessarily those of my employer
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!decwrl!pa.dec.com!heiney From: heiney@wsl.dec.com (Bob Heiney) Subject: Re: floppy drive rx26 on a personal decstation? Message-ID: <1992Aug12.214510.18423@PA.dec.com> Sender: news@PA.dec.com (News) Organization: Western Software Lab References: <1992Aug12.202405.2838@ennews.eas.asu.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 21:45:10 GMT Lines: 20