Re: floppy drive rx26 on a personal decstation?

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From: Bernhard Schneck
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:15

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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

You can also use the "mtools" package posted do comp.sources.misc some
time ago to read/write ms-dumb format floppies in the DEC.  This also
saves you some headache with special files and suid progs on the disk.

\Bernhard.
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