Hello everyone: I'm experiencing some problems trying to get Kfloppy to format a floppy disk. I'm running SuSE 9.1 (32-bit) on an older machine and SuSE 9.1 (64-bit) on the new machine. In either case, the floppies won't format. I've even tried the command line approach
fdformat /dev/fd0 (u or h) 1440
and while the terminal seems to be working, the floppies are not formatted. When I try Kfloppy, the menu 'greys out' (after the 'destroy data' warning). Seems to me that when Kfloppy is working properly, there's a horizontal bar indicator showing the work being done (as a percentage). This 'bar' does not appear now. On the older machine, I've adjusted the fstab so that the floppy drive must be 'mounted' and 'unmounted' and not 'automatically mounted' as on the new machine. Any ideas greatly appreciated. fdformat performs a raw low level format and does not place a filesystem on
On Friday 07 January 2005 07:21, Mike Roy wrote:
the floppy. Once you have that formatted, you can run mformat(3) to put the
FAT filesystem on it. KFormat should work also. Check the permissions
on /dev/fd0.
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Jerry Feldman