Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!mtxinu!unisoft!hoptoad!hsfmsh!dumbcat!marc From: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: dossette does not work Summary: Doesn't know about 3 1/2" disks Keywords: dossette, 3 1/2" flops Message-ID: <101@dumbcat.UUCP> Date: 7 Sep 89 03:53:03 GMT References: Reply-To: marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman) Organization: MH Software, Hayward, Ca. Lines: 18 In article ghodsi@shire.cs.psu.edu (M. Ghodsi) writes: > > I have recently installed ISC 386/ix 1.0.6 on my PS/2 70. I have problems getting > dossette to work (doscopy, etc.) It doesn't seem to recognize the floppy > /dev/f0q18dt. It complains that it can not open the device. The floppy is accessible > in vpix though. Can somebody tell me what is wrong? If it's the same dossette that's shipped with 2.0.1 it doesn't have any support for 3 1/2" disks built in. Run strings on the binary and take a look -- It only knows about the 5 1/4" disks. If anyone knows of a way around this limitiation please let the rest of us know. --marc -- // Marco S. Hyman // ...!pacbell!dumbcat!marc