[Freemint-list] FreeMiNT continuous integration

[Jo Even Skarstein]

On on., 2017-05-03 at 18:57 +0000, Peter Slegg wrote:

> > - Finally, when I try to format a floppy from Thing Desktop, it complains
> > that "the drive cannot be locked" and refuse to format. No clue about what
> > it means.
> 
> I've had an issue with Formatting for about 10 years. I can only format
> a floppy from TOS. It used to work with 1-15-12 but has never worked
> since.

I guess this is with EasyMiNT? I did some investigations on this many
years ago (I think you raised the issue then) and discovered that it was
syslogd (IIRC) that held a lock on the floppy drive for some reason. Try
killing syslogd and then format a floppy, it should work.

Jo Even