From: Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FORMAT floppy: Drive_IO error
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:38:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <442CDC8B.4030401@my.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603311306160.15408@enm-bo-lt.localnet>
Bart Oldeman wrote:
> DOSEMU [..] cannot and has never been able to format floppies,
> to be precise, BIOS int13/ah=5 is not implemented.
>
> Try a Linux tool, e.g. superformat.
This clears up a lot.
I suppose a user could replace format.com by format.bat,
containing "unix superformat /dev/fd0 hd" ?
Regards, Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-31 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-30 8:52 FORMAT floppy: Drive_IO error (longish) Mike McCarty
[not found] ` <442C57C7.4020306@pobox.com>
2006-03-30 22:51 ` FORMAT floppy: Drive_IO error Mike McCarty
2006-03-31 1:10 ` Bart Oldeman
2006-03-31 7:38 ` Jan Willem Stumpel [this message]
2006-03-31 9:30 ` Mike McCarty
2006-03-31 10:12 ` Mike McCarty
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