AW: fdformat surprise
fdformat is to be called with the complete device name, that is for
instance
fdformat /dev/fd0u1440
If your floppy has never been accessed fdformat doesn´t know what
geometry to format. This is the standard behaviour as long as I know
fdformat.
Michael
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>Von: Susan G. Kleinmann[SMTP:sgk@kleinmann.com]
>Gesendet: Montag, 20. Januar 1997 19:35
>An: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>Betreff: fdformat surprise
>
>If a user hasn't initialized the parameters of /dev/fd0 by running setfdprm,
>then the command
> fdformat /dev/fd0
>yields the error message "No such device" which is a little confusing,
>especially when he can actually see the device.
>
>This error message is cleared away after the user runs
> setfdprm /dev/fd0 720/1440
>or whatever is the appropriate setting for his drive.
>
>I wonder if there's a mechanism (other than questioning the user during
>a postinst script) by which the user can be alerted to run setfdprm
>before encountering the fdformat error message.
>
>Susan Kleinmann
>
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