floppy disk formatting: how to?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Mikkel writes:

> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> Hiisi writes:
>> 
>>>
>>> /dev/fd0H1440: Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole
>>> No formattable capacities for /dev/fd0
>> 
>> You're missing some device node.
>> 
>> Run 'MAKEDEV fd0'
>> 
> On my system, the device node is /def/fd0u1440, not /dev/fd0H1440.

According to the fd man page:

       3.5 inch high density device files:

       Name         Capac.   Cyl.   Sect.   Heads   Base minor #
       fdnH1440     1440K    80     18      2       28

And that's what MAKEDEV created for me.

> In any case, you should not need to run MAKEDEV - udev is supposed
> to take care of creating device nodes. If you create your own, it
> will not survive a reboot.

[mrsam at commodore dev]$ ls -al fd0H1440 fd0u1440
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 28 2009-09-22 19:52 fd0H1440
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 28 2009-09-22 19:52 fd0u1440

It's the same device node.

I don't know whether at some point in the last couple of years the commonly 
accepted naming convention for floppy device nodes has changed, or if this 
is a Fedora-ism. If the standard naming convention has changed, then I'll 
update floppy as soon as I see where the new naming convention is 
documented. But, as of now, this is what the fd man page says the naming 
convention should be, and that's what MAKEDEV creates.



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