On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:34:14AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Also, everything I was able to find via Google and a specific > instruction on this list mentioned using "fdformat -n ...fd0u1440" or > "...fd0H1440". Whereas the man page for fdformat does indeed mention > using setfdprm, it says it in this geekspeak, which is typical of Linux > documentation: > > > The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work > > with fdformat when a non-standard format is being used, or if > > the for- > > mat has not been autodetected earlier. In this case, use > > setfdprm(8) > > to load the disk parameters. > > If I study on this hard enough, I can eventually make sense of it, but > it's kind of like reading the King James version of the Bible: it may be > majestic and grand and eventually understandable, but for most > "non-professional" readers, they just basically go "Huh?"
I know what you mean. I'd say professional readers would not have a kind thing to say. > Reading the manpage for superformat, again, I'm stunned at how little > knowledge I would have gleaned from this vast repository of information > about the utility, and never would have figured out that it does better > with marginal media than fdformat does if you hadn't mentioned it. I'll I used the examples at the end. :-) -- Chris. ====== " ... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of rejecting it is far too disturbing: that we are subject to a government conspiracy of `X-Files' proportions and insidiousness." Letter to the LA Times Magazine, September 18, 2005. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
