John MacPhail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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
The same here > [jrm]$ eject /floppy > eject: unable to open `/dev/fd0' I know this problem. A script /usr/local/bin/ejf #!/bin/sh cd #why not sync umount /floppy 2>/dev/null eject /floppy 2>/dev/null solves it for me, provided I'm a member of group floppy, have mounted the device, and it's not in use. Andre > [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. > > -- > John (MacPhail) .. .. .. .. .. .. References: \ & (Perl, C/C++) > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
