Whenever I 'superformat' a diskette, I always see this:
Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future,
add the following line to /etc/driveprm:
drive0: deviation=-640
Right, I did that... but it still keeps trying to measure
On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:53:29PM -0700, Henry House wrote:
Superformat is failing on one of my machines when it attempts to measure the
raw capacity of /dev/fd0. Here is the error message:
Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
Fatal error while measuring raw capacity
0: 40
Superformat is failing on one of my machines when it attempts to measure the
raw capacity of /dev/fd0. Here is the error message:
Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
Fatal error while measuring raw capacity
0: 40
1: 01
2: 00
3: 00
4: 00
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Soulier writes:
Seems it's still two steps, superformat and then mkfs to make an ext2
floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux
manpage...
FAT16 is a pretty good format for floppies (that's what it was designed
On 26-Sep-2000 Felix Natter wrote:
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Soulier writes:
Seems it's still two steps, superformat and then mkfs to make an ext2
floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux
manpage...
FAT16 is a pretty good format
Quoting Michael Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I guess floppies aren't all that important in a world of the
internet, but they're still valuable in the form of boot disks, and small
transfers to zero-connectivity machines. Floppies are the only format not
keeping pace it would seem.
Quoting William T Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux
manpage...
FAT16 is a pretty good format for floppies (that's what it was designed
for). Ext2 isn't.
ext2 does fine with
Quoting Immanuel Yap ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Thu Sep 14, 2000, Michael Soulier wrote:
On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
Yeah, I suppose. Out of curiousity, what format is used on zip
drives running under Linux? I've never used one. Do they have their own
format, ala CDROMS with
On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux
manpage...
FAT16 is a pretty good format for floppies (that's what it was designed
for). Ext2 isn't.
ext2 does fine with floppies, it has a little more overhead than DOS, but
it
On Thu Sep 14, 2000, Michael Soulier wrote:
On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
Yeah, I suppose. Out of curiousity, what format is used on zip
drives running under Linux? I've never used one. Do they have their own
format, ala CDROMS with iso9660?
ZIP drives are treated as hard drives:
Immanuel Yap [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ZIP drives are treated as hard drives: /dev/hd[a-d]4, if you have the
IDE version. Most (all?) ZIP disks come preformatted for PC (vfat) or
Mac (HPFS?). You're perfectly free, of course, to reformat the disk
as ext2.
Mac format is HFS - Hierarchical
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 12:10:49AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote:
On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux
manpage...
FAT16 is a pretty good format for floppies (that's what it was designed
for). Ext2 isn't.
ext2
Suppose I have a CDROM drive with a lousy D/A, and a sound card with a great
D/A. How can I read the data from my favourite audio CD and send it to
the soundcard? (Presumably all the standard software CD players like
Xmcd rely on the D/A hardware inside the CDROM drive..)
cat /dev/cdrom file
How can I read the data from my favourite audio CD and send it to
the soundcard?
try cdda2wav or cdparanoia
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 05:01:28PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote:
Is ext2 really fine for floppies? Doesn't information about ownership get
stored onto the floppy, and then when you transfer it do a different system,
the files will be owned by non-existant users... Or am I way off here?
yes
So, what's with superformat? I went to format a floppy and was
told by fdformat that it was obsolete and that I should use
superformat. Then I check the manpage, and it tells me that it defaults
to making DOS floppies? What's with that?
Mike
To listen to the words of the learned
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Michael Soulier wrote:
So, what's with superformat? I went to format a floppy and was
told by fdformat that it was obsolete and that I should use
superformat. Then I check the manpage, and it tells me that it defaults
to making DOS floppies? What's
Michael Soulier writes:
Seems it's still two steps, superformat and then mkfs to make an ext2
floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux
manpage...
FAT16 is a pretty good format for floppies (that's what it was designed
for). Ext2 isn't.
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On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
Michael Soulier writes:
Seems it's still two steps, superformat and then mkfs to make an ext2
floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux
manpage...
FAT16 is a pretty good format for floppies (that's what it was designed
Pollywog == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Pollywog Are you using one of the test kernels? I had problems
Pollywog like this one with test kernel 2, I believe.
No - this is:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
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On 25-Jul-2000 Brian May wrote:
at least, I don't consider this a test kernel myself (I assume you
mean 2.3.x, or is that 2.4.x now?).
I had a problem mounting CD's and floppies with kernel 2.4.0 test2
and also using superformat. It seems to have been fixed now.
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Hello,
Previously, I just typed in the following:
--- cut ---
[501] [snoopy:bam] ~ superformat /dev/fd0
Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future,
add the following line to /etc/driveprm:
drive0: deviation=142074
CAUTION: The line is drive
On 25-Jul-2000 Brian May wrote:
Hello,
Previously, I just typed in the following:
--- cut ---
[501] [snoopy:bam] ~ superformat /dev/fd0
Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future,
add the following line to /etc/driveprm:
drive0
Hi,
Drive specifications (i. e. /dev/fd0) as suggested in the examples of
superformat manual page don't work. Message returned: get drive
parameter: Das Argument ist ungültig (argument invalid). If I take /floppy,
a or a: as drive specification, I get open: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht
gefunden
When I used superformat I got an error message:
...
mformat error.
mformat: command not found
Why did this happen? How to solve it? I've installed the fdutils package. TIA!
On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 10:33:49PM +0800, zjdwdz wrote:
When I used superformat I got an error message:
...
mformat error.
mformat: command not found
Why did this happen? How to solve it? I've installed the fdutils package. TIA!
You need the mtools package. fdutils recommends it. You
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 01:03:00PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
I get errors from superformat saying it cannot
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when
there is a lot of memory available.
bash-2.01$ superformat -d /dev/fd0
Formatting cylinder
On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote:
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when
there is a lot of memory available.
bash-2.01
Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote:
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 25 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote:
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when
I wrote too soon. The problem did recur.
bash-2.01$ superformat -v 1 -d /dev/fd0 fdmount cp -a /var/tmp/fd0/*
/fd0 fdumount sync
.format: Cannot allocate memory
The errors reported to /var/adm/messages look like
floppy0: data CRC error: track 52, head
On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 01:03:00PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
I'm not sure if this is a problem with the superformat program from
the fdutils package or with malloc under libc6 or with my kernel but
I get errors from superformat saying it cannot allocate memory when
there is a lot of memory
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