barsam@arizona.edu (Barsam Marasli) (02/08/89)
We have a Sun 386i with 3.5" floppy. So far we haven't been able to write anything on a diskette from Unix. It formats with fdformat without any problems but can't get anything going with tar, cpio or dd. We tried several device names such as /dev/rfd0a, /dev/rfd0c, /dev/fd0a, /dev/fd0c without any luck. The error message we get is something like: FD drv 0, blk 0: missing header address mark Can anyone help us explain what we're doing wrong? Please e-mail or post. Thanks in advance. Barsam Marasli Internet: eros!barsam@arizona.edu or barsam@rvax.ccit.arizona.edu UUCP : ...{allegra,cmcl2,hao!noao}!arizona!eros!barsam Bitnet : barsam@arizrvax