floppy disk formatting: how to?

Mikkel mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Wed Sep 23 21:30:28 UTC 2009


Hiisi wrote:
> 2009/9/23 Mikkel <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
>> man floppy
>> or
>> pinfo floppy
>>
>> You can create the /etc/floppy file by running, as root this
>> command: floppy --createrc > /etc/floppy
> 
> Done that.
> 
>> You should then be able to run something like:
>> floppy --format A:
> 
> Whenever I'm trying the command above I have:
> floppy --ext2 --format A:
> floppy 0.16 Copyright 2001-2006, Double Precision, Inc.
> 
> /dev/fd0H1440: Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole
> No formattable capacities for /dev/fd0
> 
> 
> The penult line means 'The file or directory not found'.
> What's wrong with it?
> 
Dumb question 1 - does it help if you run "modprobe floppy" as root
before trying to format a floppy?

Dumb question 2 - did you make sure you had a disk drive in the drive?

Dumb question 3 - Does the floppy drive work for anything else?

You can also play with fdformat /dev/fd0u1440 (I am not sure where
you got /dev/fd0H1440.)

Mikkel
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