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Subject: Bug#1355: mformat does not work
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From: Andi Kleen <andi@mlm.extern.lrz-muenchen.de>


Package: mtools
Version: 2.0.7 12

mformat does not work.

How to repeat:

# mdir A:
[ correct directory listing ]
# mformat A:
Non-removable media is not supported
#

I had expected it to format the disk in the A: drive.

I am using Debian 0.93A, kernel version 1.3.25 and libc 4.6.27.

-Andi

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Subject: Bug#1355: mformat does not work
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Andi Kleen <andi@mlm.extern.lrz-muenchen.de> said:

> mformat does not work.
>
> How to repeat:
>
> # mdir A:
> [ correct directory listing ]
> # mformat A:
> Non-removable media is not supported
> #
>
> I had expected it to format the disk in the A: drive.

I'll leave this bug report open because the error message could
certainly be better.

Mtools can try multiple disk geometries to read a disk, but needs
to know which one you really want to use in order to write on a disk.

You can provide this info to mformat manually:
  SYNOPSIS
       mformat [ -t tracks ] [ -h heads ]  [  -s  sectors  ]  [  -l
       volume label ] drive:
or you can provide information specific to your hardware configuration
by editing /etc/mtools.ref.  There are examples in that file.

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> I'll leave this bug report open because the error message could
> certainly be better.

I remember an announcement a couple of weeks ago of a new, totally
rewritten, version of mtools. Maybe this has been fixed in that version?

Ray
--
ART  A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old.
I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking
his name in vain.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan

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