On Mon Jul 05 1999 at 21:07, Glynn Clements wrote:
> C.Jagadish wrote:
>
> > Thank U very much. You said it is possible to format a floppy with
> > special formatter to get 1.7 MB. I think this will solve my problem
> > because I found if I add the library files as suggested by Mr Ray, it will
> > work.
> >
> > Can you help me how to format a floppy for 1.7MB.
>
> fdformat /dev/fd0u1760
>
> Do `echo /dev/fd0*' for a list of the various capacities.
Perhaps someone can confirm this, but I was under the impression that
you need the fdutils package in order to handle things like this (eg,
superformat). The man page for fdformat (which comes from the
util-linux package) can only handle the standard formatting
densities...
Cheers
Tony
