Re: gfloppy: Could not determine current format type

["Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" <famrom idecnet com>]

toralf@kscanners.com (2000-08-07 at 0927.53 +0200):
<rant>
> I open the message only if the subject tells me that it might be interesting. I

As I said, I fast scan the contents. Each person has its manias. I
guess you will not like my desktop, for example.

> haven't got the time to read them all... Also, the Subject: header is displayed
> along with the message body in all mail clients I've ever used, so it's actually i
> bit surprising to me that some people are using mailers where it's not.

It is showed, on at the beggining while reading and in index of each
mailbox, but I do not use it (for example due threads that change
topic, but not of subject) except when searching for something and I
remember who and what (otherwise I use search functions or even pure
grep).

> Anyhow, I was writing this (i.e. the initial message of this thread) as I was just
> about to leave my office to be in time for something else, so I was in a hurry. I
> normally try to be a lot more precise.

It seems we all did it wrong. Hurry never is good. Lets forget it.
</rant>

> I would appreciate it if we could stop this discussion now, and if someone could
> tell me why 'gfloppy' (the version from gnome-utils-1.2.0_helix_1) complains about
> failure to determine current format when I'm trying to _completely_ reformat a
> floppy (I don't know what format it has, or if it is formatted at all, and I don't
> really care.)

As I am not the gfloppy coder, so lets try to find the problem step by
step:

- can you format that floppy with other tools? Maybe the floppy is
damaged, so no tool will be able to format it.

- can you format other floppies with those other tools? Maybe the hw
is damaged, so no tool will format floppies, and maybe even will "eat"
them (I recently had to change one drive due this, read fine, but eat
them when writting anything).

- can you format other floppies with gfloppy? Maybe gfloppy is really
the problem, and is unable to detect all kinds of floppies or floppy
drives, for example.

Lets see is this time thing go smoother. :]

GSR