HI Ted et al,,, On Saturday 02 March 2002 17:47, Ted wrote:
Hi.. Can anyone tell me if the mke2fs format on a floppy is more searching than a msdos format command..The reason I ask is I have found a pile of floppies about 200 !!..They will format ok in dos but I get a %90 error message from linux ...I am wondering if it is the floppy drive but it is only a couple of months old....The disks that linux would not format showed no errors in the dos format..
That sounds normal to me. Many times I've had to format diskettes under dos because Linux is so picky about errors. Don't know the reason behind that. JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf Linux System # 129656 The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer