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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:41:48 +1000
From:      "Verghese George" <vgeorge@groupwise.swin.edu.au>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Formatting a floppy - Help required.
Message-ID:  <sf4a2032.050@groupwise.swin.edu.au>

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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
4.0


Verghese George



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