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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > I tried to remake bothdisks but it copied 
> > something to disk2 and told me disk full.  
> > I had deleted all previous files 
> 
> Deleted or formatted?  Delete does not necessarily
> remove all files on the floppy.

I checked andtherewere no hidden files (attr) and even after reformatting 
it toldme disk full except forone timewhen it copied files but thedisk 
wouldnot work.

> 
> > This time it seemed to copy all the files but when 
> > I tried to boot from these disks it told me for 
> > disk 2:  Data error reading A.  
> 
> Are you copying on one machine and trying to read from
> another?  It is not unusual for the floppy drives on
> two machines to be out of alignment with each other.

I suspected thismight be the problem so I started all over on the second 
machine with reformatted disks and either it wouldn ot write to Disk2 
(disk full) or itwouldwrite butnot working. Usually it would just tellme 
disk full. 


> > This time it also told me disk full 
> 

> If this happens again, make a note of all the files
> (and sizes) on the first floppy *and* in the HD
> directory where you are running make_fd.bat.

Ten fileson the first floppy disk including autoexec and config command 
ibmbios ibmdos loadling part1 vdisk zimage.

bl2-fd.img part1 part2 zimage make_fd.bat  on the hard drive

 
> > Do I have two computers that will not let me write 
> > to floppy disks with linux?  
> 
> It has nothing to do with Linux.  make_fd.bat is a 
> DOS batch file.



> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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