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Troubleshooting
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`FDC busy, sleeping for a second'
     When another program accesses a disk drive on the same controller
     as the one being formatted, `superformat' has to wait until the
     other access is finished.  If this happens, check whether any
     other program accesses a drive (or whether a drive is mounted),
     kill that program (or unmount the drive), and the format should
     proceed normally.

`I/O errors during verification'
     Your drive may be too far out of tolerance, and you may thus need
     to supply a margin parameter.  Run `floppymeter' (Note:
     floppymeter) to find out an appropriate value for this
     parameter, and add the suggested `margin' parameter to the command
     line