Hello, I'm trying to excute fdformat. No matter what I enter I get the following error message:
floppy drive state ------------ now=13142098 last interrupt=13142098 last called handler=c0182f4c timeout_message=floppy starts: 8 81 369470 f 80 369470 0 90 369470 " " ' " " " last results at 13101664 last redo_fd_request at 13101664 status=10 fdc_busy=1 DEVICE_INTR=c0181f50 fd_timer.function=c0181ebf cont=c0227970 CURRENT=00000000 command_status=-1 floppy: floppy timeout called ioctl(FDFMTTRK) I/O error ___________ end of error message ____________ the command I entered was: fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 I should point out that I'm using REDHAT. The system I'm going to is Debian. I'm trying to copy some files off of my old system. TIA. Wayne-