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Ray Olszewski wrote:
> It's been some time since I've needed to do this, but as I recall, I just
> ran mformat without any parameters and it did fine for a 1.44 M floppy. If
> not, you have two options:
>
> 1. the file /etc/fdprm lists parameter values for many disk sizes.
>
> 2. There are many /dev entries for the floppy drives. Look at all the ones
> that start with fd0. The values reflect different assumptions about drive
> size. If you format and create the filesystem on /dev/fd0h1440 instead of
> /dev/fd0, the /dev entry should supply the needed parameters.
>
> At 09:54 PM 3/3/99 +0100, Klaus Drechsler wrote:
> >hello everybody,
> >
> >how can I format a floppy disk for dos under linux ? I found out, that I
> >have to do a low-level format with "fdformat /dev/fd0" and then I should
> >use the mformat tool to make a dos-fs on it. but how does mformat work ?
> >the man pages don�t say nothing about how many tracks and sectors and heads
> >I should use ...
> >I want to format a 1.44 MB floppy disk.
>
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