On an unconditional format I always command: Format A: /F:1440 /U - but I still get the error way too often.
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Don Flowers <donr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have gotten that critical error so often that I have abandoned FreeDOS > format. It happens most often on previously unformatted diskettes or on > 720kb diskettes. > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:55 AM, John Hupp <free...@prpcompany.com> wrote: > >> In the thread "Drivers or tips for 3 ISA sound cards?" I just reported >> solving a problem with a driver installer that froze when it arrived at >> the step where it analyzes the hardware configuration. It turned out >> that it was choking on the fact that D: and E: partitions existed but >> were not yet formatted. The installer worked fine once I formatted the >> partitions. >> >> I then wondered if that same circumstance played into another quirk I >> had observed. I had been unable to make this work on this machine: >> > format a: /u >> >> That always produced an error. My notes are a bit scattered, and I'm >> not 100% sure that this is the error connected to that command, but I >> think it was: >> >> Critical error during DOS disk access >> DOS driver error (hex): 01 >> Description: unknown unit for driver >> Program terminated >> [Error 129] >> >> But after formatting the two partitions, "format a: /u" seems to work >> fine. >> >> This was not a fully controlled test, and I'd like to have the >> opportunity/time to test it more definitively, but I'm reporting this to >> see if anyone else can confirm or deny the behavior. This is a default >> FreeDOS 1.1 installation on a Pentium 150, 64MB configuration. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > >
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