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General Category => LisaList2 => Topic started by: blusnowkitty on September 25, 2021, 11:19:46 pm

Title: BLU LLF Failing
Post by: blusnowkitty on September 25, 2021, 11:19:46 pm

Any clues on why low-level formatting a 5MB Profile with BLU is failing during the Spare Sector format? I keep seeing Status 00000001 or 00000003 midway through the Spare Sector format.

Title: Re: BLU LLF Failing
Post by: blusnowkitty on September 26, 2021, 10:10:23 pm

So, found an old post on LisaList1 where Jason ran into the same problem. I'm seeing the same thing as well, ??????? as device name and completely nonsensical sizes in BLU. But the fun thing is... Office System can still format and install to the drive without issue regardless?

https://lisalist2.com/lisalist1/2682.html

Title: Re: BLU LLF Failing
Post by: compu_85 on September 28, 2021, 01:02:45 pm

I was just going to reply that I ran into this same problem formatting ProFiles in BLU  :-\

Title: Re: BLU LLF Failing
Post by: AlexTheCat123 on September 28, 2021, 06:10:55 pm

I've had the same issue too.

Title: Re: BLU LLF Failing
Post by: patrick on September 29, 2021, 02:58:34 am

Quote from: blusnowkitty on September 25, 2021, 11:19:46 pm

Any clues on why low-level formatting a 5MB Profile with BLU is failing during the Spare Sector format? I keep seeing Status 00000001 or 00000003 midway through the Spare Sector format.

This is no fault. It just means that 1 resp. 3 spare blocks are in use. As long as this number is below 0x1F your drive will be useable.

Title: Re: BLU LLF Failing
Post by: compu_85 on September 29, 2021, 10:35:13 am

Ya, sounds like a bug in BLU then, because if it's not a 0, the process bombs out.

-J

Title: Re: BLU LLF Failing
Post by: blusnowkitty on September 29, 2021, 06:36:29 pm

And indeed, most of the time during the spare sector format when it errored out the stepper motor would be halfway or 3/4 across the surface of the disk.

Title: Re: BLU LLF Failing
Post by: sigma7 on January 11, 2022, 04:02:51 pm

Thanks for the clarification, I'll add this to the bug list.

Quote from: patrick on September 29, 2021, 02:58:34 am

Quote from: blusnowkitty on September 25, 2021, 11:19:46 pm

Any clues on why low-level formatting a 5MB Profile with BLU is failing during the Spare Sector format? I keep seeing Status 00000001 or 00000003 midway through the Spare Sector format.

This is no fault. It just means that 1 resp. 3 spare blocks are in use. As long as this number is below 0x1F your drive will be useable.