On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 21:37:00 +0100
> From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
> To: George Sollish <gsollish@mail.gisco.net>
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Microdrive
> 
> 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 ?
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>

A bit embarassed to discover that I had "dev/wd1d" in
/etc/mtools.conf.  It does work with "/dev/wd1d", although the kernel does
complain about "no disklabel".  Thanks for your reply.


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