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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!ninja!ulka.zso.dec.com!alan From: alan@ulka.zso.dec.com (F. Alan Jones) Subject: Re: How to format UNIX floppies under 386BSD Message-ID: <1992Oct6.173648.13606@ninja.zso.dec.com> Lines: 8 Sender: jones@ulka.zso.dec.com (F. Alan Jones) Nntp-Posting-Host: ulka.zso.dec.com Reply-To: alan@ulka.zso.dec.com (F. Alan Jones) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation References: <1992Sep29.165042.1@vax.sonoma.edu> <wutcd.718055285@hadrian> <1992Oct5.153315.22272@ninja.zso.dec.com> <1992Oct6.145844.669@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:36:48 GMT What you are asking me to do is bring down a mult-user system because someone forgot to keep a supply of formated disks. What I'm looking for is DOS independence. I'll repeat my question: Does there exist source for isa/ide lower level floppy formatting? Does there exist a good reference on the subject? Alan