From: Stefanie A. Pagel (stef@cityweb.de)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 20:03:29 CEST
> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 09:35:29AM +0200, Stefanie A. Pagel nicely
wrote:
>>
>> > # fdformat /dev/fd0H1722
>> > # cat VNC.tgz > /dev/fd0H1722
>>
>> > (first mount the disk with the VNC image and cd'in )
>>
>> Whenever I try to format a floppy-disk, system tells me that it is
a
>> read only file system.
>> The flopyy-disk is NOT write-protected. Formatting a floppy-disk
with
>> DOS is no problem, it seems to be a linux problem only.
> You have a big problem with your floppy controller and fdformat.
> Can you format a 1440?
> # fdfromat /dev/fd0H1440
No.
Formatting ... 0
ioctl(FDFMTTRK): I/O error
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>> Everything could be the reason as I'm not sure that I made
^everything
>> right during installation process.
>>
> This is a thinkpad machine?
Yes, a thinkpad 755C.
Gruss
Stefanie Pagel
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