Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:51:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: "E. Jordan Bojar" <bojar@intersys.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: floppies Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103271944030.498-100000@pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <01Mar27.093934est.115445@gateway.intersys.com>
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, E. Jordan Bojar wrote: > I don't normally work with floppies, but I just did a fresh 4.2 install last > night and when I try to format a floppy it tells me "Operation not allowed". > The floppy is _not_ write protected, which was my first thought. The > command is "fdformat /dev/rfd0", right? How was I stupid? I always have to use a sequence of three commands to format a floppy (I took it from someplace in the FreeBSD handbook: # fdformat -f 1440 fd0.1440 # disklabel -B -r -w fd0.1440 fd1440 # newfs -t 2 -u 18 -l 1 -c 40 -i 5120 -m 5 -o space fd0.1440 Uli. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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