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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: MS-DOS disks
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.043927.24660@ni.umd.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 04:39:27 GMT
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In article <MbeEK_u00UhBQ55UVB@andrew.cmu.edu> ja2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jinmo Ahn) writes:
>    When I boot using my internal 105M swap drive in place of the
>external Maxtor, the dos disks can be read.  Now, when I reboot with the
>external drive, the those same disks cannot even be recognized.

This is a long shot, but do you have the MS-DOS filesystem handler available
on the external disk that you boot from?  You should have a directory called

	/usr/filesystems/DOS.fs

with these files in it:

DOS.fs.tiff     DOS.name        DOS.openfs.tiff   DOS.util   dosfs_reloc


louie