Re: 2.1.89 and strange floppy messages...

Sean M. Kelly (smkelly@zombie.org)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 16:27:21 -0600 (CST)


On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Yuri Kuzmenko wrote:

:[1:22:05] yuri@killer:samba$ mkdosfs /dev/fd0
:mkdosfs 0.3b (Yggdrasil), 5th May 1995 for MS-DOS FS
:floppy0: long rw: 24 instead of 12
:rs=1 s=1
:rh=0 h=0
:rt=1 t=0
:spt=18 st=0 ss=1
:floppy0: long rw: 24 instead of 10
:rs=1 s=1
:rh=1 h=1
:rt=1 t=0
:spt=16 st=18 ss=1
:
:
:There is *no* errors with floppy. What this messages means?
:

I, too, would like to know what these messages mean. I noticed these while
mounting a MS-DOS disk and printing files on it. The disk appers to be
completely fine. Are these just debugging messages that we get to see
because we use a development kernel or is something broken somewhere?

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Sean M. Kelly
smkelly@zombie.org

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