On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 02:53:29PM -0700, Henry House wrote:
> Superformat is failing on one of my machines when it attempts to measure the
> raw capacity of /dev/fd0. Here is the error message:
>
> Measuring drive 0's raw capacity
>
> Fatal error while measuring raw capacity
> 0: 40
> 1: 01
> 2: 00
> 3: 00
> 4: 00
> 5: 01
> 6: 08
>
> I have fdutils version 5.3-3.2. Any ideas?
Have you tried more than one floppy? I get that sometimes. When I do I
throw it in a windows box and format it there. Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it's just a bad floppy.
hth,
kent
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