At 11:34 PM 12/30/95, Jose Alburquerque wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Markus Illenseer wrote:
[..]
>>  Unless you change/rewrite the Floppydriver in NetBSD-Amiga, forget about
>> MS-Dos disks.

Right.

>Markus,
>
>Listen, as I understand, mtools is a program that uses the hardware of 
>any system it is compiled under, to access PC-DOS disks regardless.  I've 
>used mtools in SunOS though by nature it cannot read PC formatted disks.  
>I'm not sure, but I think the program needs to know how to address the 
>hardware and all should be fine from there.  All I'm trying is to compile 
>mtools and need to know what path I use to address the hardware, such as 
>in SunOS which uses /dev/rfd0 (or something like that?).  Does anyone out 
>there have any idea what I'm talking about?  If I'm totally wrong please 
>forgive me for the foolishness.  Thanks.

Your forgiven :)  The problem is not what file system the floppy has on it
but rather the track layout of the floppy.  The path to the device has
nothing to do with why you can or can not write msdos disks.

It would be fairly simple to update fd.c to do msdos disks if anyone
really wanted to.  Until that time however there is no way to write
an msdos disk.  No user-land binary has access to DMA or other hardware
required to write raw data to the floppy.