[183] in Athena Bugs
Re: floppy progs on RT 6.0a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Tue Apr 12 03:54:08 1988
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <mar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, henry@garp.mit.edu, rt-testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 11 Apr 88 22:44:17 -0400.
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 88 03:53:28 EDT
Bug reports for non-production systems should go to rt-testers.
>fdformat says "not a typewriter" if you try to format /dev/fd0,
>although it does work on /dev/rfd0.
This is not a bug; the manual page for fdformat indicates that the raw
device (and not the block device) is the one to be formatted.
>dosread, doswrite, and dosdir just plain don't work. In fact, I
>managed to hang a machine by trying 'doswrite -i'.
I think some of this is already noted.
-- Henry
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