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From: rp@osc.COM (Rich Patterson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Problems with formatting floppy under System V/386
Keywords: format floppy System V/386 HDFD controller
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Date: 6 Mar 90 20:11:34 GMT
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Organization: Object Sciences Corp., Menlo Park, CA
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Hi,
	I've had some problems formatting floppy disks(1.2M) under System V/386.
If I format a disk using format and then try to cpio I get a write failure.
If the disk was formatted under DOS then I can read/write the disk with
no problems.  I have no problem reading or writing archives from floppies that
have been previously formatted (like an old set of distribution diskettes) or
those formatted under DOS.  I've also written a program to format the disks
using the ioctl (vtoc) interface and I get the same results.
	Have I missed something here ??  The diskettes I'm using are from
Kodak.  Has anyone experienced similar problems with any other blank
unformatted diskettes ???

Thanks in advance,
rp@osc.com
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