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Re: Ouadra 700 and floppy



Hans Bergström wrote:
> 
> Why can't I use the floppy drive? "Mount /dev/fd0 /floppy" produces the
> message "mount: the kernel doesn't recognize /dev/fd0 as a block device
> (maybe 'insmod driver'?)
> 
> the fstab entry looks like this:
> <file system> /dev/fd0; <mount point> floppy; <type> auto; <options>
> user,noauto; the rest is zeros.
> I've tried MAKEDEV, MAKEFLOPPIES and the mtools.
> Hans B

Because noone has ever wrote working floppy drivers for these Mac's,
documentation of scarce and the time of the few kernel-hackers is
extremely limited.

Alas, Erik.
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