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Article #13219SS1 floppy format failure
From: Steve M. Burinsky
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1989 02:42
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1989 02:42
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I've had friends tell me that they took their SS1 out of the box, popped in a floppy, and did a "fdformat" with no problems. When I try it... % fdformat Type return to start formatting floppy. <return> fdformat: FDKIOSCHAR failed, Invalid argument % Also, the following is written to /dev/console: fdioctl: FDKIOSCHAR unsupported transfer rate 0 What am I doing wrong? It makes no difference whether there is a disk in the drive or not. Thanks, Steve
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request From: smb@cs.umd.edu (Steve M. Burinsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: SS1 floppy format failure Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <3868@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 8 Dec 89 02:42:46 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 16 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 220, message 18 of 19