From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 13:02:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E7C16A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:02:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.eecs.harvard.edu (bowser.eecs.harvard.edu [140.247.60.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A5D43D1F for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:02:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ellard@eecs.harvard.edu) Received: by mail.eecs.harvard.edu (Postfix, from userid 465) id 9EC0254C6D1; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:01:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.eecs.harvard.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C33E54C66E; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:01:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:01:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Ellard To: Adam Retter In-Reply-To: <1086609808.314.9.camel@wokshopbsd.oocltd.dom> Message-ID: <20040607085908.Y42261@bowser.eecs.harvard.edu> References: <1086609808.314.9.camel@wokshopbsd.oocltd.dom> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to Format 1MB Floppy X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:02:24 -0000 On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Adam Retter wrote: > Also someone mentioned that these 1mb disks only format as 720kb - is > that true? That was probably me... What I meant is that there's a built-in option to newfs_msdos for 720K disks, but I don't think there's one for 1MB disks. If you want to use the entire disk, and the 1MB is the real size (not some phony marketing size) then you'll need to specify the geometry to the disk explicitly. You'll need to get this from the disk vendor, I guess. Given that it sounds like nothing is working: have you tried a different disk, or a different drive? Maybe it's a hardware problem. -Dan