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From: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
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Subject: 3.5" disks, PS/2 model 50Z
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Date: 29 Dec 89 18:17:39 GMT
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In my office machine (386), I have 1.2 and 1.44 mb floppy
drives.  Vanilla 1.3 runs on this machine.  On a lark, I
tired to back up from /at0 to /at1.  Also tried making an
empty file system on /at1.

Well, mkfs won't accept 1440 blocks on /dev/at1, which
didn't surprise me that much.  It will accept 1200, though,
and in any case a cp /dev/at0 /dev/at1 will make a backup
disk on the 3.5" drive.

That sparked the interest of a colleague who has a PS/2
model 50Z with a 3.5" drive A and a hard disk.  I was a
bit astonished that the boot disk seemed to be acceptable,
at least I got the boot menu.  But it would not read the
root file system after the = entry (reads /dev/fd0 forever).

But I also seem to remember that model 50 was not yet on
the compatibility list.  Anyone know the facts here?

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