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- Fdutils
-
- Fdutils is set of tools to handle floppy disk drives.
- It includes the following items
-
- * superformat: formats high capacity disks of (up to 1992k for
- high density disks or up to 3984k for extra density disks)
- * fdmount/fdmountd: automatically mounts/unmounts disks when they
- are inserted/removed.
- * xdfcopy: formats, reads and writes OS/2's XDF disks.
- * MAKEFLOPPIES: creates the floppy devices in /dev
- * getfdprm: prints the current disk geometry (number of sectors,
- track and heads etc)
- * setfdprm: sets the current disk geometry
- * fdrawcmd: sends raw commands to the floppy driver
- * floppycontrol: configure the floppy driver
- * General documentation about the floppy driver
-
- Note, that the utilities do not work for USB floppy
- drives, because these are handled by the system as
- emulated SCSI disks, and the tools cannot access the
- floppy controller there.
-
- In order to make use of the more exotic floppy formats
- you may have to create the corresponding device files
- in /dev/. To do so you can use (as root) the command
-
- MAKEFLOPPIES -g
-
- which will probe the floppy driver in the kernel and
- create just the devices your kernel supports.
- Or you can use MAKEDEV to create a default set of devices.
-
- To make full use of fdmount you may want to set the suid bit
- for the fdmount executable. To do so, you can use the
- fdutilsconfig script, which is distributed with fdutils.
-
- There are some known issues with superformat on non-i386
- and devfs systems. If superformat does not work for you,
- you can try "fdformat" from the util-linux package,
- instead.
-
- Jochen
-
- -- Jochen Voss <voss@debian.org>, Wed Feb 25 20:37:24 2004
-