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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!corax.udac.uu.se!astro.uu.se!goran From: goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) Subject: Re: How to lowlevel-format floppies ? Message-ID: <1992Sep9.082916.570@corax.udac.uu.se> Keywords: floppies,formatting Sender: goran@solaris.astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden References: <hahn.715972931@ios> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 08:29:16 GMT Lines: 20 In article <hahn.715972931@ios>, hahn@ipk.fhg.de (Uwe Hahn) writes: |> Is there anybody, who can tell me how to lowlevel-format floppies under |> 386BSD ? The mtools only offer to highlevel-format floppies and I know of |> fdformat or format on SunOS or SysV-PC-Unixes. |> |> Is there such a tool under 386BSD (Jolix) ? No, there isn't one in the ordinary distribution, and unless someone has fixed this (I think you need to add lowlevel-format capability to the fd driver) you have to boot DOS to format floppies. -- Goran ------------------------------+--------------------------------- Goran Hammarback | goran@astro.uu.se Astronomiska Observatoriet | Uppsala Universitet | S-751 20 SWEDEN | ------------------------------+---------------------------------