Malte Gell wrote:
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
Well, what I'm trying to understand is what the purpose of the superformat utility is if the old fdformat utility works ok. Is superformat specifically for formatting "super capacity" disks? can it not format a low density disk at all?
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.
Well, here's what I did and it seems to work: (I had to edit the keyword "zero-based" out of the mediaprm file)
[root@testbox ~]# /usr/local/bin/setfdprm /dev/fd0 COCO720 [root@testbox ~]# fdformat /dev/fd0 Double-sided, 80 tracks, 9 sec/track. Total capacity 720 kB. Formatting ... done Verifying ... done
Note that it says 9 sec/track but it really isn't- it does actually format the disk with 18 sec/track.
If that works, fine- I just want to know what superformat is for, if it's broken, or if it just doesn't do what I'm trying to do.
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