From: umlippen@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Rick Lippens)

| In <1992Oct24.080620.12433@sfu.ca> semenoff@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Semenoff) writes:

 [...]

| >Furthermore, when I try to use mtools, I get an error message

| >to the effect of

| >"Can't access fd0. No support for 18 track 2 heads 80 sector

| >floppies".

 [...]

| I'm also having these exact problems...SLS crapped out about 6 times before

| I finally was able to get things installed properly...but now mtools is giving

| the same strange error!
Here's a piece of the README that comes with mtools (is it included in

SLS?) that may shed some light here:
=========================================================================
Run-time configuration

======================
The mapping of DOS disk drives to UNIX devices is defined in a configura-

tion file which is named /etc/mtools.
An entry in /etc/mtools can have any of the following formats:
drive device

drive device fat

drive device fat cylinders heads sectors

drive device fat cylinders heads sectors offset
drive is the DOS drive letter, device is the name of the device on UNIX,

fat is the number of bits a FAT entry has (either 12 or 16), cylinders,

heads and sectors describe the disk geometry. On hard disks, the geometry

parameters should all be zero. offset specifies how many bytes should be

skipped when accessing the device. This is necessary when using non-

standard disk configurations.

=========================================================================
Looking at the error message above, it sounds an awful lot like the

cylinders & sectors fields are switched in your /etc/mtools.
    -Hutch
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Bob Hutchinson

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

(hutchinson@wrair-emh1.army.mil)