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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!afterlife!jepstei
- From: jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: fdformat loops
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.203232.1682@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 20:32:32 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.133604.26927@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <715830854snx@grendel.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: The Great Beyond
- Lines: 27
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- In article <715830854snx@grendel.demon.co.uk> jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) writes:
- >
- >In article <1992Sep6.133604.26927@afterlife.ncsc.mil> jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein) writes:
- >>
- >> setfdprm /dev/fd0 1200/1200
- >> fdformat /dev/fd0
- >> looped on "floppy 0: data CRC error: track 77, head 1, sector 1"
- >>
- >> CTRL-C was no help, pulled bad disk out of drive --- got 6 errors
- >> reading non-existent disk
- >>
- >> This was a little hard on the floppy drive.
- >>
- >> Have not yet read the source to fix the problem.
- >>
- >> John
- >
- >1.2M drives only have tracks 0..76.
- >
- >--
- >Jim Segrave (Segrave Software Services) jes@grendel.demon.co.uk
-
- Nonsense --- 1.2M drives have 80 tracks and 15 sectors per track.
- If I had a bad floppy which gave a CRC error at track 31 would you
- then claim that 1.2M drives only had 29 tracks.
-
- John
-