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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: floppy formatting problems? Date: 18 Nov 1995 13:21:27 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <48kj47$l1o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <48faso$9om@yama.mcc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Ian Pallfreeman <ip@mcc.ac.uk> wrote: > fdformat: ioctl(FD_FORM): Input/output error > >with: > > fd0: Operation timeout > fdc0: input ready timeout > fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 0 (No status) > >in my console window. This means that the drive didn't recognize the floppy. The command was not accepted by the floppy controller. Either your drive doesn't generate index pulses anymore, or something else there is weird. Normally, the ``(No status)'' message does only appear when attempting to operate on an empty drive. Send your thanks! letters to IBM, please, for dropping the READY line from the floppy bus. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)