From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Nov 10 23:51:37 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de To: From: Peter Slegg Subject: Re: [MiNT] Floppy formatting X-Mailer: MyMAIL Rev:1.83.12191 (Atari/(STiK/STinG/GlueSTiK)) X-Hardware: Atari Milan MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:42:30 +0200 (GMT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Message-Id: <00026415.018b9c7e3f56@smtp.freeola.net> References: In-Reply-To: Pine.NEB.4.63.0511081937240.12764@panix1.panix.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.7 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, MISSING_MIMEOLE, MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME X-Spam-Level: * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de id jAAMpaVs012217 On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:40:31 -0500 (EST), Jim DeClercq wrote: > Hello, Peter > > Format a disk using what, please. I never bother with formatting apps on the Milan, not much point really. I tried formatting from the Thing menu and also using some util from bash. Sorry forgot what the command was, that's why I prefer to use GEM apps and not cli. ;-) > I have at least a dozen > formatting programs, but I use one that formats a disk readable > on my work machine, which is the usual, and highly > unsatisfactory. > > If you will please unburden yourself of the name of the program > you are using to not format a disk, that will allow me to at > least do some comparisons. > Floppy format works fine with 1.15.12 but gives the error I reported a while ago when using 1.16.any version. Regards, Peter