Re: WXP-formatted msdos Floppies

["Dave Feustel" <dfeustel@mindspring.com>]

What I observed was that I was able to write to
a very old msdos floppy (possibly formatted with
os/2 back in the 89-92 timeframe) and then to
read that floppy on Windows XP Pro running on
my laptop. Then, because there were a lot of junk
files on the floppy, I reformatted it on the laptop.
Then when I tried to remount the floppy on my
desktop computer running OpenBSD, the mount 
command kept reporting an error. Then I pulled up 
another  really old msdos-formatted floppy and I was 
able to mount it with no problems, write to it and read
the written file from the floppy using the laptop.

But then my copy of Windows XP Pro may well be
buggered.  I'm very close to replacing WXP  on
the laptop with OpenBSD now.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan" <sascjf@cablelynx.com>
To: "Dave Feustel" <dfeustel@mindspring.com>
Cc: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: WXP-formatted msdos Floppies


> At 08:07 AM 10/1/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >It looks like OpenBSD 3.1 release cannot mount 1.4Mb
> >msdos floppies formatted using the Windows XP format
> >command. This will be a moot issue for me as soon as I
> >start using OpenBSD on my laptop, but it might be worth fixing.
> >
> >
> >Dave Feustel
> 
> When I installed OpenBSD 3.1 on my laptop, I had no difficulty
> using floppies formatted using my WinXP Pro machine.  I have
> not updated anything other than to turn off services, since it's not
> on all of the time.  If anything is broken about reading floppies
> formatted through WinXP, it's broken after the default install of
> 3.1.
> 
> Respectfully,
> Stefan