> My impression was it was a 2Mb RAW disk and when the filesystem (DOS) is > written to it. 1.44MB remains.
AFAIK, the 2mb capacity is 'unformatted' and 'formmatted' means that the drive is low-level prepped for use, timing tracks and so forth have been written. At that point it's a 1.44 meg capacity device. Then you get to format it (i.e., make a filesystem). Of course, "formatting" in linux is a two step process - fdformat and mkfs. People used to Windows and DOS think of it as one unified process. > Your saying that it will just say "put in next floppy" like winzip does? Doh, > if this works, then the previous question is redundant. If you add the -M flag, yes. :) Actually it will say "prepare medium in /dev/fd0" or something similar - it doesn't know or care that fd0 is a floppy.
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