davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp (Dave McLane) (03/11/91)
A while back somebody said they were having troubles accesing DOS disks under (ISC I think) UNIX. I'd been using VPIX which works OK for me and I'd been able to mount a DOS disk and access it as UNIX, but when I went to use dossette I had problems: some of the time it would work and some of the time it wouldn't. The main problem was that if I just said: $ dossette A> dir The disk read light would flicker on, and (in the beginning unbeknownst to me) an error message would appear on the console saying to insert the disk. I found that if I mounted the DOS disk as root with: # mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/f0q15dt /mnt I/anybody could access it as a UNIX file system but I/anybody couldn't access it with dossette commands as they gave an error message. The solution (workaround?) was to use the following sequence: # mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/f0q15dt /mnt # umount /dev/dsk/f0q15dt And then use: $ dossette ; doesn't access disk A> a: ; accesses disk A> ; OK now As long as the drive door remained closed, anybody can access the disk (one at a time) with dossette; but the minute the door's been opened it is necessary to mount/umount the/a disk. I've made life easy by creating a "floppy" script which I run as root: === floppy ==== mount -f DOS /dev/dsk/f0q15dt /mnt umount /dev/dsk/f0q15dt Seems weird and I would hope there would be better solution, but it works.... --Dave
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (03/11/91)
davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp (Dave McLane) writes: >The disk read light would flicker on, and (in the beginning >unbeknownst to me) an error message would appear on the console >saying to insert the disk. > >Seems weird and I would hope there would be better solution, but it >works.... There is a better solution. Get the fixdisk from ISC that fixes the dossette problem. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc. uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170