Hi vinu, First I tried with one IBM machine which has an attached drive, then it resulted in error after formating. Then tried with other linux machine of same type with other new floppy(TDK), again the same thing. After that I tried these two floppies in windows(NT) machine but it says "windows unable to format".
-Logu Since you are getting this error with multiple floppies, you possibly have a problem with your floppy drive. Are you able to format floppies on the same drive using windoze, or do you get floppy corruption there also? Regards, Vinu. On Tuesday 02 October 2001 03:52 pm, Logu wrote: > I tried formatting a new floppy under linux using the command > #fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 > but while verifying I am getting a message "Input/output error. Problem > reading cylinder 0, expected 18432, read -1". > And the floppy became unusable. I tried with another new floppy with the > following commands > #mknod /dev/fd0u1440 b 2 60 > #fdformat /dev/fd0u1440 > Again it resulted in the same error. And i could not use the floppy again. > Is there any way to recover this. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
