Hi all,
Hope someone can point me in the right direction. I've been banging at
this thing for months off-and-on and I can't get it to work.
System is running Fedora Core 4, kernel is 2.6.14-1.1644_FC4smp. This is
with fdutils 5.5
I'm trying to format old 8 bit OS9 disks in my 1.44 meg /dev/fd0 drive.
The format is 720k, 80 tracks, 18 sectors, 256 bytes per sector, 2
sides. I'm using 720k media.
I can set the parameters fine:
[root@testbox bin]# setfdprm /dev/fd0 DS DD sect=18 cyl=80 ssize=256
but superformat has never worked for me, no matter what I do I get
output like this:
[root@testbox bin]# ./superformat /dev/fd0
Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
Fatal error while measuring raw capacity
0: 40
1: 01
2: 00
3: 00
4: 00
5: 01
6: 08
if I use regular old fdformat, it works, but it reports the wrong number
of sectors- so maybe it really doesn't work.
Note that I can format the disks in the actual system and transfer
images back and forth just fine. I just can't format them in linux.
thanks
-Mike
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| David C Niemi (Reston, VA, USA) niemi at tuxers dot net |
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:45:57 +1100
From: John Floyd <jfloyd(a)bigpond.net.au>
To: fdutils-owner(a)tux.org
Subject: USB Floppy Formatting.
Hello,
Is this something that you would like to include in fdutils?
I have been looking for quite a while for a solution to this, and just
recently found this reference
http://www.geocities.jp/tedi_world/format_usbfdd_e.html
I tried it on a usb floppy that I have access to and it only appeared to
format the first track. I have modified the code to specifically
format each track and side. It appears to work but some specific
testing still needs to confirm this. USB formatting seems to operate
under the UFI spec and each drive has an internal list of the floppy
formats that it will accept (limiting I realise). So it will not work
genetically like superformat does. This appears to be a
hardware/firmware implementation limit.
Given the amount of trouble that I have had getting this info - I have
been trying to decide on the best way to advertise this - it seems that
fdutils is the best IMO.
Let me know please.
John.
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