On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:47:39AM +1100, James McDonald wrote: > I was wondering if anyone else has issues with fdformat. I seem to break fdd's > using it
I've hosed a few floppy disks with it, but no drives. What I have seen happen, however, is that using the 1.72Kb format works until a drive starts to age and lose its alignment, at which point, a disk formatted to 1.72 in *that* drive is not always readable in another drive, and vice versa. The superformat man page explains this in more detail. > This is the warning in the FAQ from http://www.toms.net/rb/ about what it can > do. > "Virtually all 1.44 drives support 1.722 just fine, but it is possible for > an extended format to break a floppy drive, use tomsrtbt at your own risk." Hmm. I'm not sure how that would happen. > Here is the output of fdformat using a brand new Verbatim MF 2HD Floppy { > [root@amd root]# fdformat /dev/fd0u1722 > Double-sided, 82 tracks, 21 sec/track. Total capacity 1722 kB. > Formatting ... done > Verifying ... Read: : Input/output error > Problem reading cylinder 80, expected 21504, read -1" } Have you tried reformatting to the standard 1.44Kb using /dev/fd0h1440? Kurt -- Bride, n.: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
