From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 2 14:27:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA08453 for current-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:27:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA08440; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:26:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA15480; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 14:26:53 -0800 (PST) To: dg@root.com cc: current@freebsd.org, joerg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did my floppy drive just break or does fdformat no longer work? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jan 1997 05:19:33 PST." <199701021319.FAA15795@root.com> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 14:26:53 -0800 Message-ID: <15477.852244013@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Looks like "fdformat" is assuming the wrong density = there are only 18 > blocks/track on a 1.44MB floppy (0-17), so it should come as no surprise that > an attempt to format block 18 would fail. It fails the same way with /dev/fd0.1440 - hmmm! Jordan