From: Daniel Barker Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: FORMAT A: /U crashes BASH and Windows 98 Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 11:58:55 +0100 Organization: Edinburgh University Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: holyrood.ed.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: scotsman.ed.ac.uk 924260157 15092 129.215.38.17 (16 Apr 1999 10:55:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT scotsman DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Apr 1999 10:55:57 GMT Lines: 23 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Earlier this year there was a thread with subject "bash and format don't mix", about problems with FORMAT applied to a write-protected disk under BASH. My problem is perhaps related to this. I have found BASH crashes, and the machine freezes so thoroughly that I can't even re-start with CTRL-ALT-DELETE, if I issue the command FORMAT A: /U from a BASH prompt under Windows 98. The disks I tried this with were NOT write protected. I mention this mainly as a sort of bug report. I can avoid the problem easily enough, of course, by running FORMAT from COMMAND rather than BASH. Daniel Barker, Biocomputing Research Unit, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JR United Kingdom