From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 13 21:57:01 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 63BBF37B401 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 21:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from monitor.cc.swin.edu.au (monitor.cc.swin.edu.au [136.186.1.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C3CE43FA3 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 21:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vgeorge@groupwise.swin.edu.au) Received: from groupwise.swin.edu.au (Not Verified[136.186.1.61]) by monitor.cc.swin.edu.au with NetIQ MailMarshal (v5.5.4.16) id ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:56:58 +1000 Received: from INET-DOM-MTA by groupwise.swin.edu.au with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:56:58 +1000 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.0 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:56:23 +1000 From: "Verghese George" To: > Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Formatting a floppy 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: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 04:57:01 -0000 Hi, I tried a simple command of formatting a floppy drive #fdformat /dev/fd0 It comes up with an output Errors encountered: cyl Head Sect Error 0 0 1 no address mark in ID field 0 1 1 no address mark in ID field 1 0 1 no address mark in ID field 1 1 1 no address mark in ID field etc I am using freebsd 5.1. I had no such problems when I was using version 4.0 Could you help? Verghese George vgeorge@swin.edu.au