I am having trouble formatting a 1.44 MB internal IDE diskette.
(I've been asked get rid of my old diskettes - so I am hoping to either sell them or give them away to anyone who might still need them)
I can access it, read and write, erase contents but I cannot format it for some reason.
I have used the Puppy Floppy Format utility that I downloaded as a pet but it returns an error that it cannot format due to write protection.
It is not write protected.
Using the terminal I also get the following error:
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# sudo mkfs.fat -a /dev/fd0 1440
mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
attribute "partition" not found
I have used
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mkfs -t msdos /dev fd0 1440
and other derivatives but get the same error.
I am using bionic pup 32 v8.0.
Any help is greatly appreciated!