On Thursday 01 December 2005 00:19, Mike Pepe wrote:
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.
[root@testbox bin]# ./superformat /dev/fd0 Measuring drive 0's raw capacity Fatal error while measuring raw capacity
When I have such difficult disks I use fdformat with the -n option at first and then format it again without skipping the verification, so in your case: fdformat -n /dev/fd0u720 fdformat /dev/fd0u720
I can't remember where it was, I guess at the fdutils' homepage somwhere I read that sometimes it's necessary to skip the verification process at first when formatting difficult disks and the format again with verification, I don't know why it helps but it has helped for all difficult disks I've seen.
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