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When I was loading a copy of WordPerfect.pkg this morning (don't ask why
I was doing it at 4am, I'm cramming for a biostats test) I got this error:

Nov  9 04:25:39 Workspace[155]: Error while querying for for device
info at /WordPerfect 2 with devnum 1544.

The disk was mounted and showed up in the FileViewer as a file folder and
not as a floppy.  The message on the shelf said that "7.01 KB available on
foreign disk" but nothing was misbehaving.  Just for fun, (when I had 
copied that part of the WP.pkg file onto my hard drive for safe keeping)
I went ahead and re-initialized the disk and got:

Nov  9 04:28:55 Workspace: Unmounted floppy disk at /WordPerfect 2
/usr/etc/disk -i -h legolas -l "WordPerfect 2"  /dev/rsd1a
disk name: PLI SUPER FLOPPY
disk type: removable_rw_scsi
device = /dev/rsd1a   block size = 512   capacity = 1 MBytes
Disk Format in progress...
***Format Complete***
writing disk label
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a
setting optimization for space with minfree less than 10
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 1344 9 2 8192 1024 16 0 5 2048 s
Warning: 6 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/rsd1a:	1344 sectors in 75 cylinders of 2 tracks, 9 sectors
	1.4Mb in 5 cyl groups (16 c/g, 0.29Mb/g, 64 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:
 16, 320, 592, 896, 1168,
initialization complete

However, the floppy icon still didn't show up in the File Viewer, but still
wanted to behave as a "foreign" disc.  I proceeded with the installation
and moved on with my business.  Just thought it was rather odd behavior
and wanted to share it.  Oh, BTW, I've got NS3.0-Gold running with the
DiskEject bug fix running on this system with a PLI SuperFloppy drive
which seems to working okay (for the most part  :-).  I'm curious, though,
about the "foreign" disc business.  Hmmm.

Peace


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