Re: floppy disk formatting: how to?

Mikkel writes:

Sam Varshavchik wrote:

Hiisi writes:

/dev/fd0H1440: Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole
No formattable capacities for /dev/fd0

You're missing some device node.

Run 'MAKEDEV fd0'

On my system, the device node is /def/fd0u1440, not /dev/fd0H1440.

According to the fd man page:

      3.5 inch high density device files:

      Name         Capac.   Cyl.   Sect.   Heads   Base minor #
      fdnH1440     1440K    80     18      2       28

And that's what MAKEDEV created for me.

In any case, you should not need to run MAKEDEV - udev is supposed
to take care of creating device nodes. If you create your own, it
will not survive a reboot.

[mrsam@commodore dev]$ ls -al fd0H1440 fd0u1440
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 28 2009-09-22 19:52 fd0H1440
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 28 2009-09-22 19:52 fd0u1440

It's the same device node.

I don't know whether at some point in the last couple of years the commonly accepted naming convention for floppy device nodes has changed, or if this is a Fedora-ism. If the standard naming convention has changed, then I'll update floppy as soon as I see where the new naming convention is documented. But, as of now, this is what the fd man page says the naming convention should be, and that's what MAKEDEV creates.

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