On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, Martin McCormick wrote:
> then decided to start from scratch after it didn't work so I used
> a bulk tape eraser and completely erased the disk which is
...
> What happened after I zapped the floppy is that fdformat will not
> run because it sees no pre-existing format information. I am not
Did you read the fdformat manpage? Please do.
Then, tell us *exactly* what you are doing, and what the kernel reports
("dmesg | tail -n 30" should do). It is not impossible for a kernel bug
to be around, not many people use bare-hardware floppy devices nowadays
(the USB-attached ones don't count, they're hardware/firmware-mediated).
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Henrique Holschuh
