From: sprave@gonzo.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Joachim Sprave) Subject: Re: mformat, socket help needed Date: 30 Nov 1992 09:40:22 GMT
In article <Nov27.221716.51955@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>,
dd435157@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Dan Doner) writes:
|>
|> Hello all. I have two probably stupid questions -
|>
|> 1) How does one format a floppy with the MSDOS filesystem? I
|> have fdformatted it & can mkfs it - but I want to be able to
|> mformat it. mformat gives me an error 'cant format :/' - regardless
|> of the command line arguments I give it (something like mformat -t ?
|> -... /dev/fd0 )
|>
|> [...]
From the mtools' README:
An entry in /etc/mtools can have any of the following formats:
drive device
drive device fat
drive device fat cylinders heads sectors
drive device fat cylinders heads sectors offset
If your entry looks like this
A /dev/fd0 12 0 0 0
Mtools will auto-detect your fd-geometry, formating will not
work. Replace or preceed it by
A /dev/fd0 12 80 2 15 # 5.25"
or
A /dev/fd0 12 80 2 18 # 3.5"
and you can mformat HD-disks. If you want to format DD-disks
too, add the appropiate line and format with
mformat -t #tracks -h #heads -s #sectors A:
Hope that helps,
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