Matteo,
> I am closing this bug because:
>
> 1. It has not been reproduced with the last version of fdutils, despite a
> call
> for testing launched in 2011 by myself.
>
> 2. m68k is not even a Debian architecture any more.
Can't fault you there - I can't remember seeing the CFT but then, I had one
ot two catastrophic mail spool crashes on this system. Anyway -
> Furthermore, after discussing with Alain Knaff (fdutils' upstream), it
> appears
> that Amiga was never supported, as their floppy controller had nothing to do
> with Intel controllers. However, Atari should probably work.
According to the old bug report, it did fail on Atari. m68k/amiga not
working I can see, and m68k/mac I never expected to work (similar for Apple
ppc).
> Please feel free to reopen this bug if you are able to reproduce it.
I'll see whether I can get a recent version from debian-ports. Not a
priority though unless a m68k user complains (heh).
In the meantime - thanks for putting this one to rest.
Michael
> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:09:04 +0100 (CET)
> From: Michael Schmitz <schm...@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
> To: sub...@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: fdutils bug: superformat doesn't work on m68k (and ppc neither it
> seems)
>
> Package: fdutils
> Version: 5.3-3
>
> superformat fails to work on m68k (Atari TT030, in this case). fdformat
> has been removed from the archive in favor of superformat. No way of
> formatting floppies under Linux now.
> >From discussion on debian-powerpc it seems superformat won't work on ppc
> machines either.
>
> Error message:
>
> m68k:~# superformat /dev/fd0
> get drive characteristics: Invalid argument
>
> Probable cause: superformat uses some ioctl not present on m68k.
>
> Please add fdformat back to the archive (doesn't seem to be in util-linux
> 2.10f-3, only the nag script is there), or fix superformat to only use
> system calls actually implemented on the architecture in question. Thanks.
>
> Michael Schmitz
>
>
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