Thank you all,

> From:: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:32:24 +0200

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:51:54 +0000 (GMT)
> "Michael Kintzios" <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this 
> > output:
> > [...]
> 
> Just a side note here (mtools and mkfs.vfat would solve the actual
> task): partition table of a floppy disk? well, you could create one,
> but i guess _that_ would definately lead to a floppy not working with
> Windows... There's usually no partition table on a floppy disc. The
> whole device is used for one filesystem instead ("superdisc"?).
> 
> This is actually a little bit different with USB disks: Both variants
> are common there (w/ and w/o partition table).

Hans, I thought that there was a Cylinders/Heads/Sectors entry at the beginning of a FAT formatted floppy (and that a Linux created floppy partition will additionally require zeroing the first 512B using dd for M$Windoze OS to recognise it?)
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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