On 4/11/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 19:29 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > 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.
You could also try b: if you happened to have the drive plugged into that port in the cable. I sure don't miss floppy drives ... until I have to do a BIOS update :[ /Mike