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|    Message 297 of 1,512    |
|    Matt Costanza to Edmund    |
|    Re: BeOS 4.5 reading MS-DOS disks    |
|    11 Dec 03 21:32:48    |
      From: mcostanza@austin.rr.com              Edmund wrote:              >       > There is a very big bug in BeOS, in version 5 too, I have the same problem on       > ALL the BeOS systems I ever tried, they don't, or hardly read any floppy       disks.       > I asked it here severall times but only you and me seems to have this       problem.       > Trying a few hundred floppies will help, ( not joking ) format it first with       > dos and one out of hundred floppies will work on BeOS too.       > Funny thing is, diskprobe has no problem at all reading any floppy.                     Thanks for the info. I guess I will just burn a CD to get the drivers       over to the laptop running BeOS.              Regards,       --       Matt Costanza       Austin, Tx USA              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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