Floppy format question.

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu May 11 15:07:58 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 22:50 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> On formatting floppy, most of the floppies in my possession failed to
> get through verification, such as
> 
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 0, expected 18432, read 8192
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 51, expected 18432, read 10240
> Verifying ... Problem reading cylinder 1, expected 18432, read 14336
> etc.
> 
> Format has no problem.  Please advise how to fix them.
> 
> TIA
> 
> B.R.
> SL
> 
> 
> 
What have you been using to format them:
mformat
fdformat
or: mkfs ?
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>




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