John MacPhail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:24:30AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > do you also have a floppy drive in a powerpc machine? if so take a
> > 1.44MB floppy you don't care about stick it in the drive and run:
> >
> > superformat --superverify /dev/fd0
> >
>
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:20:21PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
> >
> > I have superformat too.
>
> do you also have a floppy drive in a powerpc machine? if so take a
> 1.44MB floppy you don't care about stick it in the drive and run:
>
> superformat -
> > [jrm]$ superformat /dev/fd0 hd
> > get drive characteristics: Unknown error 515
>
> yup looks broken, but just to be sure, you are a member of group
> floppy right? (so you have read-write permission to /dev/fd0)
#define ENOIOCTLCMD 515 /* No ioctl command */
is what this error shou
> > The device busy could be that you havn't unmounted the drive since
> > you ejected the disk.
>
> Nope. The drive was not mounted, as both /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts
> agree. It would not have made much sense for superformat to have
> mounted the drive. But somehow, somewhere, it tagged the
>:
>: [jrm]$ superformat /dev/fd0 hd
>: get drive characteristics: Unknown error 515
same experiences here on my machine.
after this fd0 isn't usable 'cause:
22:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/1 ~ > superformat --superverify /dev/fd0
open: Device or resource busy
>: [jRm]$ eject /floppy
>: eject: unabl
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:30:31AM -0700, Jeremiah Merkl wrote:
> actually, I think the "eject" command actually works to spit out
> floppies...but then I may remember that wrong...
In general, `eject' works. Not only does it spit out floppies, zip
disks, and CDs, but `eject -t' closes the CD tr
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:14:12AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> yup looks broken, but just to be sure, you are a member of group
> floppy right? (so you have read-write permission to /dev/fd0)
Right.
> > willing to do more tests. But I would appreciate advice on how to get
> > around the eje
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:07:39AM -0500, John MacPhail wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:24:30AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > do you also have a floppy drive in a powerpc machine? if so take a
> > 1.44MB floppy you don't care about stick it in the drive and run:
> >
> > superformat --superve
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:24:30AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> do you also have a floppy drive in a powerpc machine? if so take a
> 1.44MB floppy you don't care about stick it in the drive and run:
>
> superformat --superverify /dev/fd0
>
> you can drop the superverify i suppose. if it fails i
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:20:21PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
>
> I have superformat too.
do you also have a floppy drive in a powerpc machine? if so take a
1.44MB floppy you don't care about stick it in the drive and run:
superformat --superverify /dev/fd0
you can drop the superverify i supp
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:12:51PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > It's still broken on m68k, and I've files a bug because of that,
> > mentioning powerpc in passing. My Powerbook sure has no floppy drive
> > either. Anyone with a Powermac, a floppy dr
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:12:51PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> Sure, and knows of no other architecture. Or all the Debian
> porting machines had floppies disabled. Someone using an iMac as build
> machine?
superformat builds on powerpc, it just does not do anything useful.
the boot-floppie
> > Someone file a bug against superformat then. How could fdformat be removed
> > when superformat doesn't work on PPC (and on m68k neither)?
>
> the maintainer probably uses x86 ;-)
Sure, and knows of no other architecture. Or all the Debian
porting machines had floppies disabled. Someone usin
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:25:07PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> Someone file a bug against superformat then. How could fdformat be removed
> when superformat doesn't work on PPC (and on m68k neither)?
the maintainer probably uses x86 ;-)
i'll file the bug if no one else wants to, but befor
> one problem:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ fdformat /dev/fd0
>
> Note: /usr/bin/fdformat is obsolete and is no longer available.
> Please use /usr/bin/superformat instead (make sure you have the
> fdutils package installed first). Also, there had been some
> major changes from version 4.x. Pleas
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:37:40AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > If you mean you want to erase every last cluster on the disk, then you can
> > use the following command to do that, no matter what type of drive it is:
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 count= > clear whole disk>
>
> This would b
> If you mean you want to erase every last cluster on the disk, then you can
> use the following command to do that, no matter what type of drive it is:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 count= clear whole disk>
This would be erasing a disk, not formatting it. fdformat handles the
formatting (writing
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:34:14PM -0500, Eric Reischer wrote:
> If you mean you want to erase every last cluster on the disk, then you can
> use the following command to do that, no matter what type of drive it is:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 count= clear whole disk>
this only works if the flo
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:40:04PM -0600, pohl wrote:
>
> Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:13:25PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
> > > I haven't figure out yet how to do a low-level format on
> > > /dev/fd0 on PPCs, can anybody help me?
> >
> > i don't thin
If you mean you want to erase every last cluster on the disk, then you can
use the following command to do that, no matter what type of drive it is:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 count=clear whole disk>
This should essentially create a floppy disk with absolutely no information
on it; not even a
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:13:25PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
> > I haven't figure out yet how to do a low-level format on
> > /dev/fd0 on PPCs, can anybody help me?
>
> i don't think you can... the tool used for this is superformat
> which function o
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:13:25PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
> I haven't figure out yet how to do a low-level format on /dev/fd0 on
> PPCs, can anybody help me?
>
> My machine is a PowerBook 3400/potato/2.2.17, the floppy drive comes
> as a module (hardware module of course :)).
i don't think yo
I haven't figure out yet how to do a low-level format on /dev/fd0 on
PPCs, can anybody help me?
My machine is a PowerBook 3400/potato/2.2.17, the floppy drive comes
as a module (hardware module of course :)).
Thank you,
Andre
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