On 10/11/09 17:42, ael wrote:
I tried setting the density to dd instead of hd -- something that I
had also tried on fdformat without success. gfloppy managed to
This is indeed very useful information, sorry to have not spotted this
earlier. Double density disks cannot be formatted as high
I tested both fdformat and superformat (from fdutils 5.5-20060227-3,
and then also from 20081027) with kernel 2.6.32-rc6 and on Kubuntu
9.04, and both worked fine. Could it be a bad drive or a bad disk?
No. I have used several known good discs and on several (4 actually)
machines with
On 03/12/09 16:28, ael wrote:
I tested both fdformat and superformat (from fdutils 5.5-20060227-3,
and then also from 20081027) with kernel 2.6.32-rc6 and on Kubuntu
9.04, and both worked fine. Could it be a bad drive or a bad disk?
No. I have used several known good discs and on several
Alain Knaff wrote:
On 10/11/09 17:42, ael wrote:
I tried setting the density to dd instead of hd -- something that I
had also tried on fdformat without success. gfloppy managed to
Sorry. I think I should have posted more about that, but the report was
so long already that I held back.
I
Alain Knaff wrote:
Btw, did you get around to check the /etc/driveprm (or
/usr/local/etc/driveprm file) to make sure nothing fishy is in there?
Neither file exists on this machine which I am using for mail ATM - and
which has the problem. (Or did when I last tried - must try again given
I tried to format one of the floppies using gfloppy. This also failed
to verify, but managed to get past several tracks, unlike fdformat.
I tried setting the density to dd instead of hd -- something that I
had also tried on fdformat without success. gfloppy managed to
verify to around track 73.
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