Oops!  I meant to write

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0a count=2880 bs=512

Then I usually can write the boot floppy images with no problem.  :)

If I develop a 1.5 gigabyte floppy, I'll let you know. 

Regards,

Glendon Gross


Ben Collver wrote:

>I have had dd succeed and a subsequent cmp fail, which is why I do the
>"redundant" cmp.
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>Do you have a 1.5 gigabyte floppy? ;)
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>Ben
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>On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:56:00PM -0800, Glendon Gross wrote:
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>>My favorite way to format floppies is with dd:
>>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0a count=2880 bs=512k
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>>This way if the command succeeds I know that every 512k block on the 
>>floppy is good.
>>
>>On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Ben Collver wrote:
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>>>I can confirm that tip.  Another thing that saves grief is to do
>>>something like "cmp /dev/rfd0a /path/floppy-image" to verify they are
>>>indeed the same.  This is usually how I catch that a floppy has gone
>>>bad.
>>>      
>>>
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