Formatting a floppy - Help required.
Verghese George
vgeorge at groupwise.swin.edu.au
Sun Aug 24 21:42:25 PDT 2003
I tried a simple command of formatting a floppy drive
#fdformat /dev/fd0
It comes up with an output
Errors encountered:
cyl Head Sect Error
0 0 1 no address mark in ID field
0 1 1 no address mark in ID field
1 0 1 no address mark in ID field
1 1 1 no address mark in ID field
etc
I tried the command
fdformat /dev/fd0.1440
and fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fdo
but the result is the same.
Am I doing something wrong?
I am using freebsd 5.1. I had no such problems when I was using version
4.0
Verghese George
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