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From: rthomasii@aol.com (RThomasii)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FDFORMAT / "input ready timeout"
Date: 4 Oct 1996 10:22:44 -0400
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I'm trying to do a "fdformat /dev/rfd0"  and I get messages like:

fdc0: Input ready timeout
fdc0: Input ready timeout
fdc0: Input ready timeout
fd0: seek to cyl 34 failed; am at cyl 20 (st0=0x20)
fdc0: hard error writing fsbn 1224 (no status)

I tried changing the "FDSEEKWAIT" from 32 to 16 and that still doesn't
help.

If anyone solved this problem and can help me I would sure appricate it.

RThomasii@AOL.COM   (Ralph Thomas)