[ale] fdformat

[wsm at mathcs.emory.edu (William Mahavier)]

>} Next I tried to format a floppy disc with
>} fdformat /dev/fd0h1440
>} It went thru the format for 80 sectors and then gave the message
>} Verifying 0
>} and then gave a large number of mysterious hex and decimal digits,
>} ending with read: I/O error
>
>Could be saying you have a bad floppy disk (try another one).

I wish it were that simple. I tried three floppies all of which
formatted under window. Thanks for trying to help.