Kfloppy formatting
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. Cheers, Mike
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Mike Roy