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From: wutcd@chemnitz.guug.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] formatting a floppy disk
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 18:26:32 GMT
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....but *NOTE*:
there's currently no driver support for low-level formatting diskettes!
This has been discussed here, i've thought a bit about this problem, but
seems someone (me??) will have to re-design the fd driver. There must
be an ioctl supporting the low-level format command of the FDC, and
any way to seek to any track (cylinder). There should be also a way to
auto-detect the floppy disk format type when reading/writing (instead
of having lots of minor device nodes).
For now, you'll have to either i) buy pre-formatted diskettes, or
ii) find any msdos computer and low-level format your disks there.
Then you'll be able to (high-level format) make a file system onto
them (or use it for tar(1)...).
J"org
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