Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 01/03/06 00:30 CST: > > >>Interesting. What happens if you insert an unformatted floppy? > > > Does anyone have one of those in this day and age? Of what value > are they? Is it worth the shelf space? > > I know I don't have any. I have a few laying around that I can > format if I need to use it, but an unformatted floppy? Shoot, > it's probably been 10 years or more since I had one. > > I can remember vaguely buying some formatted floppies, but > unformatted? Man, been a long time. Trying to think back about > making copies of SCO Unix, I may have gotten some unformatted > floppies. That would have been about 12 years ago. >
You're probably right. I just assume any unlabeled floppy is unformatted/garbage and do a mkfs on it. Thinking it through, I guess the floppies I (rarely) use do have a low level format or mkfs wouldn't work. BTW, I never use fat formatted floppies... :-) -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
