Formatting a floppy - Help required.

[David Kelly]

On Monday 25 August 2003 12:49 am, Technical Director wrote:
> If I were you I would try a new floppy and see if you can format
> then. You as well might look into the /etc/disktab file close to the
> top for other instructions on how to format a floppy.

I too am having problems with formatting floppies in 5.1. Went thru a 
handful of floppies I regularly use and none worked. I don't have 
anything but FreeBSD on this machine for a 2nd opinion on the condition 
of its hardware but the same floppies formatted without error and seem 
to work in another machine with NT4.

On return from NT4 I was unable to write files without 100% low level 
errors to the floppies with mcopy but was able to read what the NT4 
machine wrote.

The last time this sort of thing happend I found an oddball BIOS setting 
put an end to the problem in FreeBSD where NT4 had no problems. Have 
not had that problem with this MB and RELENG_4.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at hiwaay.net
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