Re: How do I format a 1.44Mb floppy disk in a laser servo drive?

Mark Hobley (markhobley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
How do I format a 1.44Mb floppy disk in a laser servo drive?

My laser servo drive is /dev/hdd. How can I format a 1.44Mb floppy disk in DOS
format?

The fdformat utility does not appear to work with a floppy disk:

fdformat /dev/hdd
Could not determine current format type: Invalid argument

Did you look at the man page for fdformat?

Because there's a clue right down at the bottom of the page.

No, I wasn't aware of it, but it took me a second to look at the man
page, and see that bit, and the second man page it points to sure
seems to be what you need.

Michael

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