SS1 floppy format failure

William S. Ang ang at theory.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Dec 21 10:53:57 AEST 1989


Steve:
>% fdformat
>Type return to start formatting floppy. <return>
>fdformat: FDKIOSCHAR failed, Invalid argument
>%

>Also, the following is written to /dev/console:
>fdioctl: FDKIOSCHAR unsupported transfer rate 0

>What am I doing wrong?  It makes no difference whether there is a disk in
>the drive or not.

You are not doing anything wrong... SMI did.  DO NOT USE 4.0.3's fdformat.
use 4.0.3c's version. 

                         William
                         ang at theory.lcs.mit.edu



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