Re: floppy low-level format

[Andre Berger <uzscd5@uni-bonn.de>]

Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:20:21PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
> > 
> > I have superformat too. 
> 
> 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... 
> 
> -- 
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

I always get this "Unknown error 515"  with superformat...

Andre

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Andre Berger <andre.berger@topmail.de> from Bonn, Germany