From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 14 22:21:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF86C16A4BF for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:21:37 -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 1CB5343F85 for ; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:21:34 -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 ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:21:32 +1000 Received: from INET-DOM-MTA by groupwise.swin.edu.au with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:21:32 +1000 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.1 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:21:08 +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 drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 05:21:37 -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 tried the command fdformat /dev/fd0.1440 and fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fdo but the result is the same. Am I doing something wrong? I am using freebsd 5.1. I had no such problems when I was using version 4.8 Verghese George