Re: WXP-formatted msdos Floppies

["mr grip" <jhonold@bigfoot.com>]

the drive on the laptop could be misaligned

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Feustel" <dfeustel@mindspring.com>
To: "Stefan" <sascjf@cablelynx.com>
Cc: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: WXP-formatted msdos Floppies


> 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