Re: floppy low-level format
John MacPhail <jrmacpha@math.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> 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
The same here
> [jrm]$ eject /floppy
> eject: unable to open `/dev/fd0'
I know this problem. A script /usr/local/bin/ejf
#!/bin/sh
cd #why not
sync
umount /floppy 2>/dev/null
eject /floppy 2>/dev/null
solves it for me, provided I'm a member of group floppy,
have mounted the device, and it's not in use.
Andre
> [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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