On 30.10.06 11:45, Mark Grieveson wrote: > I've been following this thread with interest, since I was the one who > initially expressed his exasperation over Linux coughing up floppies > like so much sour milk. > > Anyway, I finally did find a floppy that was actually mounted by my > system (of course, later, my computer rejected it as not worthy also.) > Anyway, I did try this superformat on it, with the following result > (which, of course, is the Linux computer coughing it up as a snobby > vintner coughs up regular wine):
I have bad experiences with floppies - they can be easily broken by dust (some floppies are unusable after few years), drives have to be cleaned etc etc. Maybe this is your problem too... > debian:/home/mark# superformat /dev/fd0 hd > Verifying cylinder 5, head 1 error during command execution > 66 04 05 01 01 02 12 1b ff > 44 20 20 05 01 0d 02 I'd say this is a bad floppy. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. 10 GOTO 10 : REM (C) Bill Gates 1998, All Rights Reserved! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]