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From: wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Formatting 3.5 inch floppies on 386 Xenix
Keywords: floppies, formatting
Message-ID: <1990Jul8.190612.6458@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 8 Jul 90 19:06:12 GMT
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In article <1990Jul8.013434.723@cstreet.uu.net> john@cstreet.UUCP (John Poplett) writes:
]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.

	I have had essentially the same experience.  No format under
Xenix, good format under DOS, read/write under Xenix.

Bill Pearson