Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 6 Dec 2000 13:09:08 +0000 From schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de Wed Dec 06 07:09:08 2000 Return-path: Received: from opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de [134.99.176.7] (root) by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 143eJo-0008E6-00; Wed, 06 Dec 2000 07:09:08 -0600 Received: from localhost (schmitz@localhost) by opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21805 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:09:05 +0100 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:09:04 +0100 (CET) From: Michael Schmitz To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: fdutils bug: superformat doesn't work on m68k (and ppc neither it seems) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: fdutils Version: 5.3-3 superformat fails to work on m68k (Atari TT030, in this case). fdformat has been removed from the archive in favor of superformat. No way of formatting floppies under Linux now. From discussion on debian-powerpc it seems superformat won't work on ppc machines either. Error message: m68k:~# superformat /dev/fd0 get drive characteristics: Invalid argument Probable cause: superformat uses some ioctl not present on m68k. Please add fdformat back to the archive (doesn't seem to be in util-linux 2.10f-3, only the nag script is there), or fix superformat to only use system calls actually implemented on the architecture in question. Thanks. Michael Schmitz