Formatting a floppy drive

From: Verghese George (vgeorge_at_groupwise.swin.edu.au)
Date: 09/15/03

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    Hi,
    I tried a simple command of formatting a floppy drive
    #fdformat /dev/fd0

    It comes up with an output

    Errors encountered:

    cyl Head Sect Error
    0 0 1 no address mark in ID field
    0 1 1 no address mark in ID field
    1 0 1 no address mark in ID field
    1 1 1 no address mark in ID field

    etc

    I tried the command
    fdformat /dev/fd0.1440
    and fdformat -f 1440 /dev/fdo
    but the result is the same.
    Am I doing something wrong?

    I am using freebsd 5.1. I had no such problems when I was using version
    4.8

    Verghese George

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