[ale] fdformat

William Mahavier wsm at mathcs.emory.edu
Mon Nov 11 21:58:31 EST 1996


>} Next I tried to format a floppy disc with
>} fdformat /dev/fd0h1440
>} It went thru the format for 80 sectors and then gave the message
>} Verifying 0
>} and then gave a large number of mysterious hex and decimal digits,
>} ending with read: I/O error
>
>Could be saying you have a bad floppy disk (try another one).

I wish it were that simple. I tried three floppies all of which
formatted under window. Thanks for trying to help.






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