My A5000 won't format floppies...

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From: A I Freeman
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 12:36

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My A5000 has recently failed to format discs to any of the available
formats, including the "foreign" formats available. The problem
manifests itself when I click on the Format button in the Filer dialogue
box, whereupon the Filer pops up a "Protected disc" error box. I am
using the correct density of disc for the format and have checked that
the write-protect tab is in the write-enable position. I thought I might
have a hardware problem with the drive where it didn't recognise the
position of the write-protect tab correctly, but it will still save
files to and erase files from the floppy, as well as reading correctly.
Can anyone out there throw any light on this? Do I have a software
fault? My hard disc (a 105Mb IDE drive) works fine - mind you, I haven't
tried to format it!

Alistair Freeman
A.I.Freeman@uk.ac.ed
aif@uk.ac.ed.castle

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From: aif@castle.ed.ac.uk (A I Freeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
Subject: My A5000 won't format floppies...
Summary: A5000 fails to format floppy discs but will read, write and erase them.
Keywords: Floppy disc, Formattting
Message-ID: <27989@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Nov 92 12:36:43 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.acorn.tech
Organization: Edinburgh University
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