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From: smb@cs.umd.edu (Steve M. Burinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: SS1 floppy format failure
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 8 Dec 89 02:42:46 GMT
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I've had friends tell me that they took their SS1 out of the box, popped
in a floppy, and did a "fdformat" with no problems.  When I try it...

% fdformat
Type return to start formatting floppy. <return>
fdformat: FDKIOSCHAR failed, Invalid argument
%

Also, the following is written to /dev/console:
fdioctl: FDKIOSCHAR unsupported transfer rate 0

What am I doing wrong?  It makes no difference whether there is a disk in
the drive or not.

Thanks,
Steve