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- From: goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback)
- Subject: Re: How to lowlevel-format floppies ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.082916.570@corax.udac.uu.se>
- Keywords: floppies,formatting
- Sender: goran@solaris.astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback)
- Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden
- References: <hahn.715972931@ios>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 08:29:16 GMT
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- In article <hahn.715972931@ios>, hahn@ipk.fhg.de (Uwe Hahn) writes:
- |> Is there anybody, who can tell me how to lowlevel-format floppies under
- |> 386BSD ? The mtools only offer to highlevel-format floppies and I know of
- |> fdformat or format on SunOS or SysV-PC-Unixes.
- |>
- |> Is there such a tool under 386BSD (Jolix) ?
-
- No, there isn't one in the ordinary distribution, and unless someone
- has fixed this (I think you need to add lowlevel-format capability to
- the fd driver) you have to boot DOS to format floppies.
- --
-
- Goran
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- Goran Hammarback | goran@astro.uu.se
- Astronomiska Observatoriet |
- Uppsala Universitet |
- S-751 20 SWEDEN |
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