For a best read of this mail read first this email from Eric: >Hi Johnson, could you ask those people to have a close look at >FORMAT /d output (newest FORMAT)? Several cases possible: >- boot from USB floppy, then format a floppy in that drive >- boot in normal way, then format a floppy... >- boot and load DOS USB drivers, then format a floppy... > >> It's because USB floppy driver is NOT a floppy drive. >The controller might differ, but in the end, you still put a >floppy in the drive, so it SHOULD be possible to use it with DOS. > >> And FreeDOS cannot handle (at least not for now) this kind of USB >> things in KERNEL. It should be cause by the driver won't use the right >> way to FORMAT. >That error 42 thing - as far as I remember - means some problem with >BIOS, not with KERNEL. Maybe there is a workaround possible. > >As far as I can tell, you should use /f:1440 to manually specify the >size, as int 13.8 does not seem to return a proper drive type. > > >-- Eric
Hi, I've tried to do that but this is the output from "format /D /f:1440" : [DEBUG] This is FORMAT 0.91s, selected drive -> A: [DEBUG] Using 1 sector buffer at 2165:6b9e and 1 track buffer at 2165:6f9e [DEBUG] DOS 7+ detected, LOCKing drive Insert new diskette for drive A: [DEBUG] Checking whether we need low-level floppy format. [DEBUG] Test-reading boot sector. [DEBUG] Existing format detected. [DEBUG] DOS 7+ detected, FORMAT-LOCKing drive [DEBUG] Current Disk Drive Parameter Table Values at 0070:0000: [DEBUG] [DDPT] Sector size: code 0x026 Fill char: 0x046 Formatting to 1440k (Cyl=80 Head=2 Sec=18) Your want 1440k but drive standard is 0k. Too much. Aborting. [DEBUG] DOS 7+ detected, UNLOCKing drive (by one level) [DEBUG] DOS 7+ detected, UNLOCKing drive (by one level) I can't format the floppy! What is the problem? GoodBye, %gsan92% ___FDOS_USER___ -- gsan92 ---> GSAN92 %gsan92% ____destroying_windoze____ ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
