mtools can't access drive A

[Josh Paetzel]

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 14:03, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> I just installed mtools today.  I'm tracking 4.10 STABLE and my
> ports tree was updated yesterday.
>
> I get an error:
> root at lightning(p1)/usr/src 114% mdir a:
> Can't open /dev/fd0.720: Device not configured
> Cannot initialize 'A:'
>
>
> dev says:
> root at lightning(p1)/dev 116% ll fd0*
> crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0
> crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   4 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1200
> crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,  10 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1232
> crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   3 Jul 29 00:39 fd0.1440
> crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   2 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1480
> crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   1 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.1720
> crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   8 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.360
> crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   9 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.640
> crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   7 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.720
> crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   6 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.800
> crw-r-----   2 root  operator    9,   5 Jul  7 01:00 fd0.820
> crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0a
> crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0b
> crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0c
> crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0d
> crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0e
> crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0f
> crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0g
> crw-r-----  18 root  operator    9,   0 Jul  7 01:00 fd0h
>
> I first saw this on my -CURRENT box and figured it was devfs
> related, but I hadn't researched it yet. Now I have it on my
> -STABLE boxes.
>
> Any ideas?

Take a look in /usr/local/etc for a mtools.conf.sample  Edit to taste 
and copy it to mtools.conf

Thanks,

Josh Paetzel