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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