Sorry for late response. It worksjamesbond wrote:Shinobar, do you mind testing this? Rename the fake .gz to floppy-format.sh, chmod +x and put it to /usr/sbin (replacing the original file) and see if you can format a floppy with it?jamesbond wrote:I only have one machine with floppy drive and I have not formatted a floppy for years ... I'm not even sure whether theShinobar wrote:Note: Failed format floppy, tested on Fatdog64 alpha2 and beta1.
drive is still working Thank you for the report though, I think devtmpfs doesn't automatically create this "special" floppy device
nodes. The floppy formatter program needs to be upgraded to create them on the fly.
But the probepart shows /dev/fd0 twice:
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# probepart | grep fd
/dev/fd0|none|2880
/dev/fd0|none|2880
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#120602 kernel 3.2.18 major deviance from earlier kernels, /proc/partitions (and /sys/block) now shows /dev/sr0 when no disk.
# new situation, getting duplicate /dev/sr0 so need 'sort -u'.