[MiNT] Fwd: Re: Floppy problems with Mint

[Standa Opichal <opichals@seznam.cz>]

Can we help?

STanda


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Floppy problems with Mint
From: Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>

Hi,

Thanks, I wasn't sure who to report this to and I am not on
the Mintlist anymore.

Quite a few people don't use floppies but until we get a working
USB flash stick working I will be using them.

Maybe floppy formatting hasn't been tested. I just tried to format
a floppy with 1.15.12 and format works ok so it looks like the
hardware is fine and that there is a more "recent" problem with
Freemint.

The exact messges is "The drive can not be locked!"

If I use >mkfatfs a:

it returns:

mkfatfs 0.24, 2000-06-14 for TOS and DOS FAT/FAT32-FS
Found XHDI level 1.30.

mkfatfs: Can't lock A:

Is there anything else I could try ?

Regards,
Peter

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:18:56 -0400, Standa Opichal <opichals@seznam.cz> 
wrote:
> No idea. I haven't use floppy (actually I don't even have a drive) at
> all for quite a while.
>
> Sorry.
>
> STanda
>
>
> Peter Slegg wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Perhaps you can help me.
> >
> > I am having a problem with Freemint and formatting floppy discs.
> > I started a thread on comp.sys.atari.st.tech but apart from maybe
> > fixing Jo-Evens problem with Highwire I haven't found a solution.
> >
> > Basically I can format a floppy under Milan TOS but not with
> > Freemint. Mint reports that it cannot lock the drive.
> >
> > The Milan is currently using the alpha release from December 2004
> > from the Xaaes website. Naes 1.2 and Thing.
> >
> > Has this been reported by anyone else ?  I don't format floppies very
> > often and it may have not been noticed by anyone else either.
> >
> > I tried to format a floppy via bash, I forget what command I used,
> > but it returned the same error. Cannot lock drive or something like
> > that.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter