On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 19:29 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Tuesday 10 April 2007 23:06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > For an MS-DOS floppy, > > > > > > #fdformat /dev/fd0H1440;mformat a: > > > > I don't think that udev creates anything but the /dev/fd0 for the > > first floppy with the default settings... > > > > Mikkel > > Ok. Udev doesn't come into my equation, as I'm doing this on FC2. > > I've now got a floppy formatted with a low level format using the following. > > [root@localhost djmons]# fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 > Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB. > Formatting ... done > > So far so good, but I'm darned if I can get a filesystem on it using mformat, > and have tried allsorts of incantations. It would be nice if some of these > manpages had a simple example. "mformat a:" should do it. mtools use DOS- or Windows-like device naming conventions, and "a:" is the floppy. > At the moment I feel a bit like grandpa munster (the count) having mislayed > his book of spells, and trying to conjure something up by guesswork. > > The floppy drive is almost new, and the floppy discs are Dyson MF2HD, > formatted for IBM, double sided, high density, and have hardly been used if > at all. > > Mtools version on FC2 is 3.9.9 > > Anyone can help with the correct syntax for using mformat to add a filesystem > to this low level formatted floppy. Again, "mformat a:". Also try "man mtools" for further details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - I haven't lost my mind. It's backed up on tape somewhere, but - - probably not recoverable. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
