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| From | Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening |
| Date | 2017-01-14 23:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sZEGl-2Zy-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <sZEdk-2AG-27@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, Martin McCormick wrote:
> then decided to start from scratch after it didn't work so I used
> a bulk tape eraser and completely erased the disk which is
...
> What happened after I zapped the floppy is that fdformat will not
> run because it sees no pre-existing format information. I am not
Did you read the fdformat manpage? Please do.
Then, tell us *exactly* what you are doing, and what the kernel reports
("dmesg | tail -n 30" should do). It is not impossible for a kernel bug
to be around, not many people use bare-hardware floppy devices nowadays
(the USB-attached ones don't count, they're hardware/firmware-mediated).
--
Henrique Holschuh
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Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-14 22:40 +0100
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-01-14 23:10 +0100
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Mirko Parthey <mirko.parthey@web.de> - 2017-01-14 23:20 +0100
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-15 15:20 +0100
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-01-15 15:50 +0100
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-01-15 16:00 +0100
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-01-15 19:30 +0100
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-01-15 20:00 +0100
Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved. "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-01-15 22:40 +0100
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved. Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-01-15 23:30 +0100
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-01-16 00:10 +0100
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-01-16 00:30 +0100
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved. John Darrah <xyllyx@gmail.com> - 2017-01-16 02:40 +0100
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Solved. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-01-16 04:00 +0100
Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-01-15 16:10 +0100
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