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From: Richard Puga <puga@maui.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Floppy's Under Xwindows...
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 11:39:49 -1000
Organization: Maui Research and Technology Center (MRTC)
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This is a real strange problem.. If I try and do a dd or fdformat to
a floppy disk from within X windows it will get about half way and start
telling me that there are bad blocks and various other problems with the  
floppy disk... if I change from my X screen to one of the console 
logins (not the console window in X)..  I can preform the operaion just
fine...

Has anyone heard of anything like this???

I have no explination for it other than some enviroment setting or 
somting funkey with Xterm... 


OBTW there is a stupid Colorado Tape drive in the Floppy chain...
but then again it works fine from a console window...



Anyway Thanks in advance for help with this wierd problem

RP
puga@maui.com