On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:34:24AM -0500, George Sollish wrote:
> I've got an old i486 Compaq laptop running 1.5_ALPHA and it recognizes my
> 1G IBM Microdrive in the pc slot as /dev/wd1.  I don't, however, seem able
> to access it with mtools (I'm trying to copy the boot and install scripts
> to it for transfer to a WorkPad z50 hpcmips platform).  I've defined d: in
> /etc/mtools.conf, but 'mcopy pbsdboot.exe d:' returns 'Can't open
> /dev/wd1d: No such file or directory".
> 
> Am I missing something obvious, or is the Microdrive support in i386
> lacking?

It should work. Are you sure it's probed as wd1 ?
What does 'fdisk wd1' say ?

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