Verily did Tom Swiss write:

>      I'm running 1.1 on a generic 486 box with two floppies; A: is a 3.5,
> B is a 5.25", both high density. I can't seem to get mtools running. I keep
> getting

> ./mdir: Cannot initialize 'A:'

>      This is what I have for devices.c:

> struct device devices[] = {
>         {'A', "/dev/rfd0a", 0L, 12, 0, (int (*) ()) 0, 80, 2, 18},
>         {'A', "/dev/rfd0e", 0L, 12, 0, (int (*) ()) 0, 80, 2, 9},
                      ^^^^^^
>         {'B', "/dev/rfd1b", 0L, 12, 0, (int (*) ()) 0, 80, 2, 15},
>         {'B', "/dev/rfd1c", 0L, 12, 0, (int (*) ()) 0, 40, 2, 9},
>         {'\0', (char *) NULL, 0L, 0, 0, (int (*) ()) 0, 0, 0, 0}
> };

>      I've also tried "/dev/fd..." instead of "/dev/rfd...", but no luck. Any
> ideas?

You might try changing that to rfd0f instead (as per an -old- piece of
e-mail from mycroft).  If this has changed, I'd like to know (so that I can
fix my mtools)

Also, I'm assuming you applied the fixes to various appearences of lseek().
The FreeBSD patch works, and mine is available at
http://www.warped.com/~windsor/netbsd/install-notes/i386/mtools-2.0.7.html

No idea what the 5.25" specifications are, I just don't bother.

Now, this brings up another question for me...

-where- in the source/manpages can one verify this?  sys/arch/i386/isa/fd.c
isn't helpful (other than the fact that I noticed what appears to be a typo..
"720kB in 1.2MB drive" would be rough given typical floppy sizes/formats).

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