Klaus Heinz said:

>I had no problem formatting them on the same machine with the same drive
>with Windows and have just used a Linux system-on-a-floppy (tomsrtbt)
>to format about 20 disks. I had 3 errors with Linux and retired those disks.
>That's what I would have expected: some bad disks. But with NetBSD I could
>not use fdformat successfully for a single disk and that makes me think,
>there might be a problem hiding somewhere.

I just tried this on:

NetBSD roothog.rmkhome.com 1.5ZB NetBSD 1.5ZB (ROOTHOG) #56: Sun Mar 10 13:09:41 MST 2002     rmk@roothog.rmkhome.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ROOTHOG i386

I was able to successfully format a Sony MFD-2DD floppy. I was also able to
write a file to the floppy with tar and read it back. The drive is a standard,
cheap 1.44 meg floppy drive. 

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