floppy disk formatting: how to?

[Mikkel]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
All I can tell you is that in the /Documentation/devices.txt file in
the kernel source/documentation, it does not list any floppy devices
using a capital H. There is a lower case h, but that is used in
5-1/4" floppies.
...
40 = /dev/fd?h1440     5.25" 1440K in a 1200K drive(1)
...
28 = /dev/fd?u1440     3.5"  1440K High Density(1)
...
(1) Autodetectable format

Mikkel
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