From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 05:48:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25F8816A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 05:48:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-234.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB5E43FE0 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 05:48:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CE1D766C8E; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 05:48:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 05:48:32 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Malcolm Kay Message-ID: <20031127134832.GA67728@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200311271957.42283.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200311280012.47529.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200311280012.47529.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdformat doesn't work anymore? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 13:48:34 -0000 --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:12:47AM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:57, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > I am trying to format a floppy in a FreeBSD 4.9-mumble system but it sp= its > > errors on most tracks. > > > > I've tried several floppies, but the result is the same. If I do "dd > > if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/fd0c" it completes without error. > > >=20 > So this proves you can get nulls from /dev/zero without error. > But having done this will dd read from /dev/fd0c? I recently needed to write something to floppy for the first time in several years. I had a lot of trouble finding one that worked, and several that I thought were OK because dd if=3D/dev/zero completed, gave errors on read. In the end I gave up and burned a CD for my 2k text file. The ISO image was so small that cdrecord had to pad it to a minimum size when writing it to the CD. Kris --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/xgCwWry0BWjoQKURAk5oAJ4y1S0Ui8ttAXtUPcMcKhnWHYpbqwCgq+5Z 4xrBijJVqL+YuiD8MKI143c= =7Us3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl--