I finally got one floppy to format from

superformat /dev/fd0u1680

Felt a great accomplishment. But, try do it again on several different floppies and I get problems from the very start

Stops almost immeadiatly with lseek invalid argument, huh?

just re-enter the command and it doesn't do that again.

It trys and gives continuous
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector <number> upto and past as I type this sector 1383 and keeps going forever.

Why does everthing with Linux have to be so damn complicated, infuriating and cryptic?

Hell, I even try superformat /dev/fd0h1440, a normal floppy right, immeadiatly fails with:

Verifying cylinder 0, head 0 Error, 5120 bytes remaining
Verifying cylinder 0, head 1 lseek: Invalid argument

Then immeaditly re-run the same command AND IT WORKS!!!!!
Running thru to the end and printing:
mformat -s18 -t80 -h2 -S2 -M512 a:

Just love apps that fail and then run normally.

--
Jeff
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