On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 16:06:04 +0200, verily did Klaus Heinz write:

> today I tried to use some 720k DD floppies with NetBSD 1.5.2 on i386
> and to my surprise I could not fdformat _any_ of them (/dev/fd0f)
> without getting track format errors.

> Even formatting them with a different OS and simply using them did not
> work:
>   /netbsd: fd0: timeout (st0 2 cyl 4)
>   /netbsd: fd0f: soft error (corrected) writing fsbn 984 of 984-985
>   /netbsd: fdcresult: overrun

> Can anyone confirm this problem with 720K floppies ? I could not find
> an existing problem report about it.

I think there's a PR open on that which has been around for a few years.

Rob++
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