[edit 4 / solved] for crying out loud, I was forgetting the slash after the colon.
I’ve got an older Dell Optiplex with an instance of QNX2 installed on its hard drive.
I had recently removed the hard drive for other purposes, it was out for about a month.
Upon reinstalling the drive and booting the machine back up to continue testing some things, I can no longer access disks in the floppy drive.
I do not think it is hardware related, as I can boot the machine FROM the floppy drive with both a 1.4mb DOS disk as well as a 720k QNX disk; and within DOS I am able to see and access the file structure of DOS disks.
In QNX,using CD command to switch to the drive returns “cd failed”
if I run DFS START 0 A=1 to enable dos file ability, I get the same error with the CD command
LS 1: returns “unable to access”
LS A: returns “unable to open”
When I make these attempts, the access light on the drive does light up…
I may be overlooking something very simple but I’m not yet acquainted to lots of the nuances and quirks of QNX. What else can I attempt?
do I need to re-mount the floppy? ( MOUNT DISK 1 T= N= H= would those values be 80, 18, 2 respectively?) …that didn’t do anything productive.
edit: the particular software that runs on this QNX instance was apparently able to format a dos disk through its own interface, but I am still unable to access the drive directly via the shell
edit 2: the QUERY command returns information on QNX formatted disks
edit 3: Okay, the CP command successfully copied a file to a DOS disk which I confirmed by inserting the disk into a windows machine.
This definitely leads me to think I am just overlooking something supremely simple somewhere.