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From: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Floppy formatting and using
Summary: It's tough.
Message-ID: <435@zinn.MV.COM>
Date: 15 Jan 89 22:28:28 GMT
Reply-To: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett)
Organization: Zinn Computer Co., Litchfield NH
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I'm having the dangdest time using floppies on my Microport Sys V/AT
system (v 2.4).  When I first installed the thing, v 2.2, I did floppy
backups frequently without incident.  Now, I'll format a floppy
(/etc/format /dev/rdsk/fd096), and 9 times out of 10, I'll get write
errors trying to use it.  Subsequent attempts to write to the disk
(without reformatting) fail in the same place.  If I am persistent, I
can repeat a cycle of formatting and attempting to use the disk, and
eventually it will work.  (I have no such problems when I boot MS/DOS
and format/access disks.)  Needless to say, this makes multi-disk
backups very difficult.

Before I try scrounging another drive, can someone tell me if I am
running into a known Microport problem?

-mm-
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