dossette does not work

Marco S Hyman marc at dumbcat.UUCP
Thu Sep 7 13:53:03 AEST 1989


In article <GHODSI.89Sep4110531 at shire.cs.psu.edu> ghodsi at shire.cs.psu.edu (M. Ghodsi) writes:
> 
> I have recently installed ISC 386/ix 1.0.6 on my PS/2 70.  I have problems getting
> dossette to work (doscopy, etc.) It doesn't seem to recognize the floppy 
> /dev/f0q18dt. It complains that it can not open the device.  The floppy is accessible
> in vpix though.   Can somebody tell me what is wrong? 

If it's the same dossette that's shipped with 2.0.1 it doesn't have any
support for 3 1/2" disks built in.  Run strings on the binary and take a
look -- It only knows about the 5 1/4" disks.

If anyone knows of a way around this limitiation please let the rest of us
know.

--marc
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// Marco S. Hyman
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