Subject: Re: Mounting Floppies
To: Matthew <mtheobalds@mac.com>
From: David A. Gatwood <dgatwood@apple.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/14/2001 16:06:49
On Friday, September 14, 2001, at 03:54 PM, Matthew wrote:
>
> On Friday, September 14, 2001, at 11:27 pm, Hauke Fath wrote:
>
>> Right. The Quadra 650 comes with an unsupported SWIM II
>>
>> 1) No support for MFM
>>
>> 2) "rfdXY" is teh raw device. mount(8) wantsa block device, i.e. fdXY.
>
> This explains everything!
>
> Thankyou. Disk Copy worked with the first image, I'll have to see if I
> can make it work with the second... it doesn't seem to see it.
>
> I also need to find or steal a keyboard before I can work on this
> properly, but at least I know where the disk images now stand. Thanks
> for everyone's help here.
>
> On another note, I just put 20MB RAM in a different machine which makes
> it much nicer, this also means that he'll be sent off for colocation on
> a nice telephone line, courtesy of a friend, and used as a Web Server.
> It'll be good to see another mac68k machine in the Gallery. :]
Gallery? Maybe I should add mine, ftp.mklinux.org (12.44.186.145) and
homegate.gatwood.net (variable via home-brew dynamic DNS ;-).
David