James Kosin wrote:
If you use "/sbin/mkdosfs /dev/fd0" it will format the floppy as a dos filesystem and check the lowlevel format at the same time. Use of "/bin/fdformat" does the lowlevel format only and from the man page it does require the use of "/dev/fd0H1440" or equivalent in order to know how to do that format.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Rick Stevens wrote: <<-- snip -->>
If you use fdformat to format the floppy in Linux, you still need to use mkfs to build a file system on the floppy. Otherwise, you will still get this error, even after the format.
/dev/fd0 is only permitted if fdformat knows the format already or can find it out from the floppy.
You can use mount /mnt/floppy to try again. Or better still, get a disk you know is good... and try mounting that.
However, if that disk has been used for some things (like making a linux boot disk) it cannot be reformatted using mkdosfs and would have to be reformatted with fdformat first.
Bottom line - to do the low level format use fdformat, -- to make the usable format use mkdosfs.
