From: cummings@tiger1.prime.com (Kevin J. Cummings) Subject: Re: fdformat loops Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:45:26 GMT
In article <715830854snx@grendel.demon.co.uk>, jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) writes:
>
> In article <1992Sep6.133604.26927@afterlife.ncsc.mil> jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein) writes:
> >
> > setfdprm /dev/fd0 1200/1200
> > fdformat /dev/fd0
> > looped on "floppy 0: data CRC error: track 77, head 1, sector 1"
> >
> > CTRL-C was no help, pulled bad disk out of drive --- got 6 errors
> > reading non-existent disk
> >
> > This was a little hard on the floppy drive.
> >
> > Have not yet read the source to fix the problem.
> >
> > John
>
> 1.2M drives only have tracks 0..76.
Huh? 8" disk drives only have 77 tracks (0..76). 5.25" disk drives have 80
tracks (0..79). (3.5" drives tend to have 80 tracks as well). This is with
"standard" formating. Nonstandard formats can use up to 84 tracks in there
efforts to pack data onto the disk!
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