On Monday 25 August 2003 12:49 am, Technical Director wrote: > If I were you I would try a new floppy and see if you can format > then. You as well might look into the /etc/disktab file close to the > top for other instructions on how to format a floppy.
I too am having problems with formatting floppies in 5.1. Went thru a handful of floppies I regularly use and none worked. I don't have anything but FreeBSD on this machine for a 2nd opinion on the condition of its hardware but the same floppies formatted without error and seem to work in another machine with NT4. On return from NT4 I was unable to write files without 100% low level errors to the floppies with mcopy but was able to read what the NT4 machine wrote. The last time this sort of thing happend I found an oddball BIOS setting put an end to the problem in FreeBSD where NT4 had no problems. Have not had that problem with this MB and RELENG_4. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
