Hi all,
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Gevaerts Frank wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Jeroen wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > real nice command indeed, allso Richard Adams is right cause I can copy the
> > data.
> > The only strage thing I encountered is that I wasn't able to format the bad
> > disks,
> > I used fdformat -n /dev/fd0 and fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 allso fdformat -n
> > /dev/
> > fd0 H1440 ; but the only answer I got was 'Could not determine current
> > format type:
> > No such device '. So I formatted them in wintendo (forgive me ;) ) Don't
> > know
> > what I did wrong here.
>
> several people (including myself and someone else on this list a few weeks
> ago)
-- guess that's me...
have had problems with fdformat . The suggested fix is trying
> superformat instead. You should be able to find it on sunsite.
>
> >
> > Nevertheless thanx for the answers.
> >
> > Greetings
> > Jeroen
> >
>
> Frank
>
I really do think somebody should take this serious... I'm sure
that this is not the right way fdformat should go, and somebody's got to
do something about it... I am very sad when I hear things like 'I
formatted it under Windows and ...'. And it's not their fault!
Have fun,
bogdan
