Floppy format question.
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu May 11 15:07:58 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 22:50 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> On formatting floppy, most of the floppies in my possession failed to
> get through verification, such as
>
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 0, expected 18432, read 8192
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 51, expected 18432, read 10240
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 1, expected 18432, read 14336
> etc.
>
> Format has no problem. Please advise how to fix them.
>
> TIA
>
> B.R.
> SL
>
>
>
What have you been using to format them:
mformat
fdformat
or: mkfs ?
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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