Floppy format question.

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:11:31PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
>> Hi Aaron,
>>
>> Sorry I left out the command in my previous posting.
>>
>> $ fdformat /dev/fd0
> 
> try (as root, generally):
> 
> fdformat /dev/fd0<dev>
> 
> where <dev> indicates the capacity of device you want. E.g for a 1.44
> MB floppy, /dev/fd0u1440
> 
> The rationale is that your generic device may be set to some
> different, higher capacity, hence geometry. In that case, of course
> the verification will fail.
> 
> And remember that after you format the floppy, you must then lay down
> a file system.
> 
> mkX /dev/fd0u1440
> 
> where X is the file system you want, e2fs, dosfs, etc.
> 
> 
With udev, the extra devices for specific floppy formats are not
created any more. A couple of things you can do. For formatting,
superformat works well. You can also use setfdprm to set the drive
for a specific format. You will have to check to see if they are
installed - I have FC5 on a laptop without a floppy drive, so I do
not have the tools installed.

Mikkel
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