Floppy format question.
Stephen Liu
satimis at yahoo.com
Thu May 11 15:11:31 UTC 2006
Hi Aaron,
Sorry I left out the command in my previous posting.
$ fdformat /dev/fd0
B.R.
SL
> 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 ?
> --
> Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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