Re: floppy low-level format
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:24:30AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> do you also have a floppy drive in a powerpc machine? if so take a
> 1.44MB floppy you don't care about stick it in the drive and run:
>
> superformat --superverify /dev/fd0
>
> you can drop the superverify i suppose. if it fails its broken (or
> your floppy is crap) try it on a known good floppy if possible...
[jrm]$ superformat /dev/fd0 hd
get drive characteristics: Unknown error 515
[jrm]$ eject /floppy
eject: unable to open `/dev/fd0'
[jrm]$ dpkg -l |grep fdutils
ii fdutils 5.3-3 Linux floppy utilities
[jrm]$ man superformat
<snip>
When the disk is formatted, superformat automatically
invokes mformat in order to put an MS-DOS filesystem on
it. You may ignore this filesystem, if you don't need it.
This is Potato on a beige G3 with a floppy drive. The floppy had
seemed okay, HFS formatted. If it would help anyone, I would be
willing to do more tests. But I would appreciate advice on how to get
around the ejection problem without rebooting.
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John (MacPhail) .. .. .. .. .. .. References: \ & (Perl, C/C++)
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