From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 28 17:57:01 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 2D55837B401 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D8D43F3F for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:56:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 45B8B526BA; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:26:57 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:26:57 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: DJN92546@aol.com Message-ID: <20030729005657.GC45069@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <16b.21f42231.2c56b7de@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ujOy8a1yc0D9aEKa" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16b.21f42231.2c56b7de@aol.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Floppy Disk Formatting 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: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:57:01 -0000 --ujOy8a1yc0D9aEKa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 28 July 2003 at 13:31:10 -0400, DJN92546@aol.com wrote: > We have received a file on a floppy disk from a client. When we put it into > the drive it says that disk has not been formatted. We already read from the > disk and transferred the file to another system earlier. Why, after we have > already used the file on the floppy disk does it now tell us it is not > formatted. We need to open the file to print out some information from the original > information on the disk. We do get a question that asks if we want to format > the disk now. Can we say Yes to that? Or should we say No? If we say yes, > what will it do to the disk? If you say yes, it will destroy all data on the disk. Does this question have anything to do with FreeBSD? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --ujOy8a1yc0D9aEKa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/JcZZIubykFB6QiMRAqMeAJ96TACFGmV8Fd2wJfuBmK/tH3IL1wCeK0fI qwMKeU0rvK5jX1US2AvJHLc= =oRhm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ujOy8a1yc0D9aEKa--