Hello Juan,
First, thanks all the information. It definitely should be helpful.
> [..]
>> What host OS are you using?
> openSUSE 11.4
Love openSuSE. (My personal favorite distro!)
> [..]
Based on your information, I have been able to replicate the problem in
VirtualBox as well. Basically, this seems to be a summary of the issue.
A pre-formatted floppy image has no issue being formatted in any mode.
A zero’d image file for a floppy appears to be problematic. A simple test
is to create an a blank image by using “dd bs=512 count=2880 if=/dev/zero
of=floppy.img”
Then attaching this to a virtual machine and simply formatting with “format a:”
or
“format /u a:” terminates with and error code.
However, telling format the image size appears to bypass the issue.
For example, “format /f:1440 a:” appears to always work.
Jerome
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