Rick Stevens wrote:
Jeff Vian wrote:
James Kosin wrote:
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Rick Stevens wrote:
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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.
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.
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.
"mformat a:" will also do a vfat format of a floppy.
right, among others.
mkfs < optios>
mkfs.msdos <blah>
etc.
The wonders of having 100 ways to do the same thing :-)
