On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:07:39AM -0500, John MacPhail wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:24:30AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > do you also have a floppy drive in a powerpc machine? if so take a > > 1.44MB floppy you don't care about stick it in the drive and run: > > > > superformat --superverify /dev/fd0 > > > > you can drop the superverify i suppose. if it fails its broken (or > > your floppy is crap) try it on a known good floppy if possible... > > [jrm]$ superformat /dev/fd0 hd > get drive characteristics: Unknown error 515
yup looks broken, but just to be sure, you are a member of group floppy right? (so you have read-write permission to /dev/fd0) > [jrm]$ eject /floppy > eject: unable to open `/dev/fd0' hmm i thought this was supposed to work... > [jrm]$ dpkg -l |grep fdutils > ii fdutils 5.3-3 Linux floppy utilities > [jrm]$ man superformat > <snip> > When the disk is formatted, superformat automatically > invokes mformat in order to put an MS-DOS filesystem on > it. You may ignore this filesystem, if you don't need it. > > This is Potato on a beige G3 with a floppy drive. The floppy had > seemed okay, HFS formatted. If it would help anyone, I would be > willing to do more tests. But I would appreciate advice on how to get > around the ejection problem without rebooting. use clippy -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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