Roadrunner floppies

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From: Anthony A. Datri
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1989 21:52

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When I try to fdformat floppies, I get "error formatting floppy" after
five dots, but it succeeds with fdformat -L.  This happens with 3
different kinds of disks, all three of which format just fine with an IBM
PS/2 1.44 M drive.  Any comments?
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Anthony A. Datri @SysAdmin(Stepstone Corporation) aad@stepstone.com stpstn!aad

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