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- From: wen@monolith.bellcore.com (Wen Lee)
- Subject: Help! 3.5" floppy iv problems
- Organization: Bellcore
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 14:47:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.144759.15015@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Sender: netnews@porthos.cc.bellcore.com (USENET System Software)
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- Hi,
-
- Last night I yanked the old 5.25" floppy drive out and installed the
- new 3.5" floppy disk drive. (bought from CA Digital $29+$6(S&H)).
- This 3.5" driver fits in to the original 5.25" space perfectly since
- it came with the 5.25" chassis. The only extra thing is that Radio
- Shack $2.49 3" long Adapter Cable 278-765 (you might not even need it,
- since the driver came with a 5.25" male power connector on its chassis,
- but the original cable on unixpc seems a little too short). After I put
- everything back to one piece, it boots up with no problem.
-
- Later, I tried to format a 2DD diskette using iv command BUT got the following
- error messages. Can someone tell me what the problem might be? How can I tell
- the 3.5" disk drive is really a 720K and made by Sony since nowhere I can find
- the word is printed on the drive. By the way, I have unix 3.5 on by box.
-
- HERE IS THE OUTPUT OF COMMAND "iv":
- ===================================
-
- $ iv -i /dev/rfp020 /tmp/MD10Lnl
- iv: I/O error
-
- $ cat /tmp/MD10Lnl
- #sccs "@(#)iv/lib:MD10Lnl 1.1"
- # iv description file for 135 TPI Micro Floppy file system disk.
- type FD
- name Floppy
- cylinders 80
- heads 2
- sectors 10
- steprate 0
- singledensity
- $
- $
- $
- 0
- 1
- $
- $
-
- $ iv -i /dev/rfp020 /tmp/MDLnl
- iv: disk with odd sectors/tracks must have bad block table specification
-
- $ cat /tmp/MDLnl
- #sccs "@(#)iv/lib:MDLnl 1.1"
- # iv description file for 135 TPI Micro Floppy file system disk.
- type FD
- name Floppy
- cylinders 80
- heads 2
- sectors 9
- steprate 0
- singledensity
- $
- $
- $
- 0
- 1
- $
- $
-