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- From: cummings@tiger1.prime.com (Kevin J. Cummings)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: fdformat loops
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.154526@tiger1.prime.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 19:45:26 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.133604.26927@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <715830854snx@grendel.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@primerd.prime.com (Usenet)
- Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
- Lines: 36
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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.
-
- Huh? 8" disk drives only have 77 tracks (0..76). 5.25" disk drives have 80
- tracks (0..79). (3.5" drives tend to have 80 tracks as well). This is with
- "standard" formating. Nonstandard formats can use up to 84 tracks in there
- efforts to pack data onto the disk!
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