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From: john@cstreet.uu.net (John Poplett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Formatting 3.5 inch floppies on 386 Xenix
Keywords: floppies, formatting
Message-ID: <1990Jul8.013434.723@cstreet.uu.net>
Date: 8 Jul 90 01:34:34 GMT
Reply-To: john@cstreet.UUCP (John Poplett)
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Organization: C Street Software @ uunet!cstreet
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On my Xenix 386 system, release 2.3.2, verification fails when 
formatting high-density 3.5" floppies on the second drive (using 
/dev/rfd1135ds18).

However if I format one floppy from DOS first, subsequent
formats from Xenix work suggesting that something's not quite
right in the way the FD driver is initializing the FD controller
that somehow the PC BIOS gets right.

Has anyone run across this problem before? It certainly looks
and acts and feels like a bug.

John

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