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Date:      Thu, 19 Jan 1995 21:46:01 +0100 (MET)
From:      Michael Reifenberger <root@rz-wb.fh-sw.de>
To:        Neal Westfall <nwestfal@indigo.csci.csusb.edu>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: fdformat bug
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.950119213841.402A-100000@rz-wb.fh-sw.de>
In-Reply-To: <9501191919.AA13393@indigo.csci.csusb.edu>

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On Thu, 19 Jan 1995, Neal Westfall wrote:

> I seem to have a problem with fdformat.  Every time it formats and verifies
> a track I get an error message that says "biodone: buffer already done".
> This is with the Jan. 15 snapshot and a -current kernel from Jan. 17.

Besides the biodone messages seems fdformat not to work for 1.72MB 
floppies. 
> 
> Disklabeling it is no problem, but when I newfs the floppy it reports that
> there is no MBR on the disk.  However it still works and I can mount and
> use the floppy.  Typically what I do is the following:

To make newfs silent you have to do:
disklabel -w -B /dev/rfd0.1440 fd1440
             ^^To write the MBR.


Bye!
....
Michael Reifenberger




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