Hello, I haven't had any problems with fdformat and easy to use.
Best regards, rogern John 3:16
From: Michael Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SETTLED - Re: proper way to format/use floppies (i386) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:57:58 +0200 Hi Richard, Richard P. Koett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm coming in rather late on this discussion - just curious about the > formatting step? Presumably you would do something like: > > $ fdformat fd0 Yes exactly, but the low level formatting was not the question. But thanks for answering anyway! > I've had so many f*cking problems with floppy disks over the years I > wouldn't trust using one without a successful format first. Well, I can sing you a song of broken filesystems on floppies, too. Perhaps I should also make it a habit to always fdformat first... Cheers, Michael
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