From: jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) Subject: Re: fdformat loops Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 16:35:26 +0000
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.
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> > John
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> 1.2M drives only have tracks 0..76.
Err... temporary mind siezure there. Once upon a time, when HD 5 1/4s
first came out and when XT's were just beginning, there were 77 track
5 1/4s which were more or less direct replacements for 8 inch drives.
A few years of working with these drives, a late night, ...
1.2M drives really have 80 tracks.
> --
> Jim Segrave (Segrave Software Services) jes@grendel.demon.co.uk
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