superformat not working in potato?
Hello,
Previously, I just typed in the following:
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[501] [snoopy:bam] ~ >superformat /dev/fd0
Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future,
add the following line to /etc/driveprm:
drive0: deviation=142074
CAUTION: The line is drive and controller specific, so it should be
removed before installing a new drive 0 or floppy controller.
Not enough raw space on this disk for this format
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but on potato it doesn't work. So I tried (from the man page):
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[502] [snoopy:bam] ~ >superformat /dev/fd0 hd
Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future,
add the following line to /etc/driveprm:
drive0: deviation=141434
CAUTION: The line is drive and controller specific, so it should be
removed before installing a new drive 0 or floppy controller.
Not enough raw space on this disk for this format
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and
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[503] [snoopy:bam] ~ >superformat /dev/fd0u1440
Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future,
add the following line to /etc/driveprm:
drive0: deviation=141114
CAUTION: The line is drive and controller specific, so it should be
removed before installing a new drive 0 or floppy controller.
Not enough raw space on this disk for this format
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nothing works :-(
So, some questions:
a) why is the suggested value of deviation different each time? Which
one should I use? What is the deviation?
b) why can't a format a disk? Is this because:
- the disk is faulty (I don't think it gets as far as writing
to the disk...).
- the disk drive is faulty?
- superformat is faulty and needs replacement? Perhaps superformat
has the wrong configuration for the diskdrive? I couldn't find
any config files though...
- the operator is faulty and needs replacement?
The disk drive is a standard 14.4kbps drive.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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