I tried to format one of the floppies using gfloppy. This also failed to verify, but managed to get past several tracks, unlike fdformat.
I tried setting the density to dd instead of hd -- something that I had also tried on fdformat without success. gfloppy managed to verify to around track 73. I tried installing a dos filesystem despite the verification errors, and it seemed to work. I then tried fdformat, having used setfdprm to set "hd". This time it worked and passed verification. Badblocks also ran without error. I am not sure what to make of all of this, but I wonder if my initial attempts to format with fdformat without checking that the density was set to "hd" may have written some dense data to the floppy (well, several floppies) which caused problems later. Whatever the case, it does suggest that the problem may be with fdformat with is in util-linux rather than fdutils. So perhaps this report should be re-assigned? ael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
