Re: superformat fails to measure drive's raw capacity

[ktb <ktb@nixnotes.org>]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:53:29PM -0700, Henry House wrote:
> Superformat is failing on one of my machines when it attempts to measure the
> raw capacity of /dev/fd0. Here is the error message:
> 
> 	Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
> 
> 	Fatal error while measuring raw capacity
> 	0: 40
> 	1: 01
> 	2: 00
> 	3: 00
> 	4: 00
> 	5: 01
> 	6: 08
> 
> I have fdutils version 5.3-3.2. Any ideas?

Have you tried more than one floppy?  I get that sometimes.  When I do I
throw it in a windows box and format it there.  Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it's just a bad floppy.
hth,
kent

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