[Freemint-list] FreeMiNT continuous integration

[Philippe Noble]

>>> - 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.
> 
Yes it is with EasyMint. Killing syslogd did the trick.