Re: a1200 and fat floppies, 2.2.25

[Kars de Jong <jongk@linux-m68k.org>]

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:10, zmej serow wrote:
> i can't access pc-formatted floppies under 2.2.25, amiga1200.
> amiga standard ones[ affs] worked fine. mount -t vfat and mount -t msdos
> spit this on current console and continuously trying to read something
> from floppy, making noise and MFM_HEADER lines every ~0.7 seconds:
> 
> zmej@galza~# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt
> fd0: accessing DD 3.5-disk with Amiga-layout
                                  ^^^^^

You need to use /dev/mfd0 for MS-DOS format floppies. I'm not sure if
the node is created by default, if not you might be able to create it
with MAKEDEV.


Kind regards,

Kars.