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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Problems with formatting floppy under System V/386
Keywords: format floppy System V/386 HDFD controller
Message-ID: <265@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 90 19:44:03 GMT
References: <2112@osc.COM>
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In article <2112@osc.COM> rp@osc.COM (Rich Patterson) writes:
<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 ???

You don't say what /dev driver you are using with format.  That would be
very helpful.
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