Re: More floppy oddities

2022-11-17 Thread Robert Nestor
I’ve had floppies that weren’t usable and couldn’t be formatted under Windows, but would format and become usable under OS X. After that they were usable under Windows and NetBSD, and could even be re-formatted under Windows. All the systems used the same HW floppy disk which was a USB

Re: More floppy oddities

2022-11-17 Thread Martin Husemann
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 08:15:44AM -, Michael van Elst wrote: > >These diskettes have been pre-formatted under Windows 11, they work fine on > >that OS. I have two different USB floppy drives, one is Teac, one is Sony; > >both work fine in Windows. > > That would rule out a "real" medium

Re: More floppy oddities

2022-11-17 Thread Michael van Elst
michael.chepo...@gmail.com (Michael Cheponis) writes: >--7795b905eda356fd >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" ># scsictl sd1 format >/dev/rsd1: Check Condition on CDB: 1a 00 03 00 24 00 >SENSE KEY: No Additional Sense > ASC/ASCQ: No Additional Sense Information >I

More floppy oddities

2022-11-16 Thread Michael Cheponis
# scsictl sd1 format /dev/rsd1: Check Condition on CDB: 1a 00 03 00 24 00 SENSE KEY: No Additional Sense ASC/ASCQ: No Additional Sense Information I don't know what that means. The console prints: [ 2207.9560928] sd1(umass1:0:0): medium error, data = 00 00 00 00 30 01 00 00 00 00 [