From: jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein) Subject: Re: fdformat loops Date: 6 Sep 1992 20:32:32 GMT
In article <715830854snx@grendel.demon.co.uk> jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) writes:
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>In article <1992Sep6.133604.26927@afterlife.ncsc.mil> jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein) writes:
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>> setfdprm /dev/fd0 1200/1200
>> fdformat /dev/fd0
>> looped on "floppy 0: data CRC error: track 77, head 1, sector 1"
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>> CTRL-C was no help, pulled bad disk out of drive --- got 6 errors
>> reading non-existent disk
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>> This was a little hard on the floppy drive.
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>> Have not yet read the source to fix the problem.
>>
>> John
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>1.2M drives only have tracks 0..76.
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>--
>Jim Segrave (Segrave Software Services) jes@grendel.demon.co.uk
Nonsense --- 1.2M drives have 80 tracks and 15 sectors per track.
If I had a bad floppy which gave a CRC error at track 31 would you
then claim that 1.2M drives only had 29 tracks.
John