I don't know if this has ever been discussed but I ran into a little problem wit h fdformat and thought I would share my solution just in case others have the sa me problem.
I'm one of these people who have 1000s of junk 1.44 floppies laying around that I usually end up formatting and re-using them. When I used the fdformat command to format them, it would format and then execute an mformat verify. If I tried t o format another disk immediately after it completed, I got "No Device" errors and no other format could be done. I found that if the floppy device is mounted and then unmounted, it corrects the problem. Mounting and unmounting every flopp y before formatting it can become quite tedious so I made a bash command script and placed it in my /usr/local/bin directory and called it floppyformat. I have not had a problem since. Below is a copy of the commands I used in floppyformat for the newbies out there in Linux land: # /usr/local/bin/floppyformat # must be root to execute unless you have mount capabilities for your users mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy umount /floppy fdformat /dev/fd0 I have received so much help from this group I thought I should start giving bac k to it. Hope this helps others out. Also, if someone out there could explain to me the reasons why this operation wo rks, please let me know so I can add it to my log book. I tripped across it acci dentally and would like to know the mechanics behind the solution. Keith -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- E-Mail: Keith Holler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #5386440 Date: 12-Dec-97 Time: 23:04:18 __ _ / / (_)__ __ ____ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . . -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
