Floppy format question.
Stephen Liu
satimis at yahoo.com
Thu May 11 23:34:22 UTC 2006
Hi Charles,
Your advice noted with tks.
B.R.
SL
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Charles Curley
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