Subject: Re: fdformat: how?
To: Paul Boven <paul@wit399401.student.utwente.nl>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/28/1997 17:45:50
> I can't get fdformat to, well, fdformat. Any combination of fdformat and
> a device-node from /dev/rfd* leads to 180 (or whatever appropriate)
> track formatting errors. Anything I'm doing wrong?

I noticed this on a sun4c (IPC) system. It appeared that formatting
with 9 sectors per track somehow manages to overrun the track, i.e.
overwriting sector 1 with sector 9 (or so). Maybe the formatting
parameters need some tweaking.

-pk