From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 16:14:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F62F16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:14:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [65.173.111.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B86443FA3 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:14:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAJ0EmQI041326; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:14:48 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) with ESMTP id hAJ0Ek74041323; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:14:48 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:14:46 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Technical Director In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20031118171010.L41234@wonkity.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Jerry McAllister cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:14:53 -0000 On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Technical Director wrote: > Maybe I'm wrong but isin't dd a raw write to the device when used > in this way? Hence a pre-formatting is not required? A floppy will still need a low-level format before the first use. > Preformatting may help I'm not to sure, I know that I have never had to do > it for a boot floppy creation. 99% of floppies around today are preformatted. The one you have might not be, or may have been formatted by a drive that was out of alignment. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA