Subject: Re: mount floppy?
To: John Ostrowick <jon@macaroni.cs.wits.ac.za>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/24/1997 06:04:09
As far as I remember, the floppy drive is not supported at all.  But Hauk
Fathe is working on it...

On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, John Ostrowick wrote:

> if thisis a faq i don't mind being referred to a faq page but this is what
> i did:
> 
> formatted msdos on my mac
> mkdir floppy
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd ./floppy/
> 
> error: not supported  or something to that effect.
> 
> also, how to cause the mac to eject the disk w/o using a paperclip?
> is it possible to mount a mac format disk?
> 
> also nb: will the mac REALLY mount an amiga dos disk? my brother often
> comes to surf and i'd like to force him to use the se/30. he has an amiga.
> 
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