Re: [MiNT] floppy & syslogd

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:49:49 , Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> On 08/15/11 23:48, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 08:53:52 , Alan Hourihane wrote:
> >> On 07/02/11 22:42, m0n0 wrote:
> >>> Am Freitag, den 01.07.2011, 11:00 +0200 schrieb Alan Hourihane
> >>>
> >>>> On 06/21/11 14:18, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> >>>>> Can people try this....
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://gentoo.atariforge.org/files/app-admin/sysklogd-1.5.tbz2
> >>>>>
> >>>>> And let me know, not just for the floppy problem, but for syslog
> >>>>> functionality too.
> >>>
> >>> Can you supply exact test case (what-to-do)? I would just do that and
> >>> report result back....
> >>>
> >>> I know it lame, but that way the brain can take a nap while doing it =)
> >> Yep, run syslogd and try to format a floppy - apparently. I've never
> >> bumped into the issue, so really it's for those folks who are having
> >> problems.
> >>
> >> I'm fairly sure Peter was one of these people.
> >>
> >> Alan.
> > I just tried that gentoo version and it behaves the same as the sparemint one.
> >
> > I even tried killing syslogd and it wouldn't let me format a floppy when I
> > am sure it worked before.
> >
> What's the tool you are using to format the floppy ? Maybe it's that
> that has the problem.
>
> Alan.
>
>

I tried mkfatfs again.

bash-2.05a# mkfatfs a:
mkfatfs 0.26, 2002-09-19 for TOS and DOS FAT/FAT32-FS
Found XHDI level 1.30.

mkfatfs: Can't lock A:

and even after I killed syslogd it is till locked.

Regards,

Peter