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 _______________________________________________ fdutils mailing list fdutils@tux.org http://www.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fdutils