From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 29 18:32:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D0937BA6B for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 18:32:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAAD08 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 03:32:44 +0200 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 996; Tue, 30 May 2000 11:36:19 +1000 Message-ID: <39331A75.93ECECB6@S1.com> Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 01:33:41 +0000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dmitry A. Chekhov" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: format ms-dos floppy References: <18554.000530@neisri.magadan.su> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Dmitry, > How can I make floppy to read one on WIN98 machine? > I try something about > > fdformat -f 1440 fd0 > newfs_msdos -f 1440 fd0 > I use the following 3 commands in a script file to produce ms-dos formatted floopy disks. fdformat /dev/rfd0 disklabel -w -r /dev/rfd0 fd1440 newfs_msdos -f 1440 fd0 The main difference being, I think, that the fdformat command is using the 'raw' device, and specifying that it is under /dev hth, haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message