Re: [MiNT] floppy & syslogd

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

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.