Did anybody find a bug in FreeBSD 5.1 when formatting a floppy? It
always gives an error even when formatting a new floppy, When I used
version 4.8, the formatting works fine with the same machine and
hardware. I also find the number of drives in Free BSD 5.1 much less
than in version 4.8. Many
Hi,
I tried a simple command of formatting a floppy drive
#fdformat /dev/fd0
It comes up with an output
Errors encountered:
cyl Head Sect Error
0 0 1 no address mark in ID field
0 1 1 no address mark in ID field
1 0 1no address mark in ID field
1 1
Verghese George wrote:
Did anybody find a bug in FreeBSD 5.1 when formatting a floppy? It
always gives an error even when formatting a new floppy, When I used
version 4.8, the formatting works fine with the same machine and
hardware. I also find the number of drives in Free BSD 5.1 much less
than
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 11:56 pm, Verghese George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried a simple command of formatting a floppy drive
> #fdformat /dev/fd0
>
> It comes up with an output
>
> Errors encountered:
>
> cyl Head Sect Error
> 0 0 1 no address mark i
I tried a simple command of formatting a floppy drive
#fdformat /dev/fd0
It comes up with an output
Errors encountered:
cyl Head Sect Error
0 0 1 no address mark in ID field
0 1 1 no address mark in ID field
1 0 1no address mark in ID field
1 1
hs
from time of manufacture. That and the relative slow transfer speed makes
you wonder why we haven't moved to other more sexy methods of booting up.
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Verghese George wrote:
> I tried a simple command of formatting a floppy drive
> #fdformat /dev/fd0
>
On Monday 25 August 2003 12:49 am, Technical Director wrote:
> If I were you I would try a new floppy and see if you can format
> then. You as well might look into the /etc/disktab file close to the
> top for other instructions on how to format a floppy.
I too am having problems with formatting fl
