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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!news From: cloyce@cs.utexas.edu (Cloyce D. Spradling) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: disklabel on a floppy? Date: 23 Mar 1993 16:21:12 -0600 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Lines: 21 Message-ID: <lqv3aoINNel2@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu> References: <f0XVb9N@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu In article <f0XVb9N@quack.kfu.com> mrapple@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes: ># disklabel -w /dev/rfd1a floppy3 >disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Device not configured ># dmesg | grep fd >fd0 drives 0: 1.2M, 1: 1.44M at 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on isa > >What am I missing? Thanks in advance. A floppy driver with support for disklabeling and formatting... :-) I think someone (maybe even a group of someones) is working on this [Jesus Montroy, Jr., if memory serves] You might be able to use dd to write a disklabel from the fixit (or something like that). I haven't tried it (too lazy). >Nick Sayer <mrapple@quack.kfu.com> | "Very expensive" -- | Cloyce D. Spradling is: cloyce@cs.utexas.edu | cloyce@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | | We search for things to make us go! | CAV makes me go! Wish I had some.. |