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- From: nnhut@bnr.ca (Nhut Nguyen)
- Subject: fdformat on 5.25 drives.
- Message-ID: <nnhut.713800827@bcarh676>
- Keywords: format, floppy
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:00:27 GMT
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- Hello Linuxers,
-
- I have a question regarding fdformat. For some reasons, I can not format
- 5.25 HD diskettes on my drive. 3.5 diskettes are formatted just fine.
- Any of you is experiencing this problem ?
-
- I am using Linux version 0.97pl1 and root file system from the
- MCC-interim version.
-
- I use
-
- fdformat /dev/fd1h1200
-
- for 5.25 HD diskettes on my drive, and get a bunch of errors during
- the verification phase. (A lot of noise from the drive and
- 'sector not found' messages.) For 3.5 diskettes, there is no problem.
- And I am able to access (read,write) 5.25 diskettes formatted by MS-LOSS.
-
- Do I need to set the parameters before fomatting ? If so, where can
- I get the setfdparm program and what are the values of
- necessary parameters? Thanks in advance for any information.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Nhut.
-
- P.S.
- Millions of thanks to all of you who have brought together
- a wonderful OS. I know this is repetition, but
- just want to express my gratitude. :-)
- --
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- | Nhut Nguyen | Internet: nnhut@bnr.ca |
- | BNR Ltd., Ottawa, Canada | "Oogawa oto wo tatezu..." |
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