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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   
      
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