SPARCstation 5 and superformat? (Bug#126001)
I get this very interesting strace from superformat:
open("/dev/fd0", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL|0x4) = 3
fstat64(3, 0xefffb730) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented)
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(2, 0), ...}) = 0
ioctl(3, 0x20000254, 0x1) = 0
ioctl(3, 0x40580211, 0xefffc300) = 0
open("/etc/driveprm", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "Measuring drive 0\'s raw capacity"..., 33) = 33
ioctl(3, 0x20000258, 0xefffb7f8) = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
write(2, "format: Input/output error\n", 27) = 27
exit(1) = ?
Does superformat do some i386-only magic? That's NotGood(tm) then, since the
boot-floppies use it to create a bootdisk. :-/ fdformat works quite well,
and superformat doesn't bomb out either when I create a bogus
/etc/driveprm file..
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