On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 15:10 -0800, Fred Erickson wrote: > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > Very frustrating. > > > > Nigel. > > > > Would one of the mkfs variants work for this? You could try mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0 mkdosfs /dev/fd0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "Microsoft is a cross between The Borg and the Ferengi. - - Unfortunately they use Borg to do their marketing and Ferengi to - - do their programming." -- Simon Slavin - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
