From: Wade Brown <wanderer.wcb@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:02:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cee44eb3050829100253bd7554@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <198635627125680@lycos-europe.com>
Easiest way would be to try "mformat a:" (yes, that is the actual
command), I'm not sure if it's part of the basic utilities set or not,
but it's about as simple as you can get regarding FAT floppies.
--
Wade Brown
On 8/29/05, Michael Kintzios <michaelkintzios@lycos.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output:
> ===================
> # fdisk /dev/fd0
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/fd0: 0 MB, 737280 bytes
> 2 heads, 9 sectors/track, 80 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 18 * 512 = 9216 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/fd0p1 ? 103864578 194646963 817041466 44 Unknown
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(10, 0, 13) logical=(103864577, 1, 6)
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(363, 105, 51) logical=(194646962, 1, 7)
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/fd0p2 ? 61797750 91741548 269494180+ 65 Novell Netware 386
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(370, 108, 53) logical=(61797749, 1, 7)
> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(0, 13, 10) logical=(91741547, 1, 3)
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/fd0p3 ? 62565495 62566594 9895+ 42 SFS
> Partition 3 has dirderfferent physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(329, 79, 13) logical=(62565494, 0, 8)
> Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(335, 77, 4) logical=(62566593, 1, 7)
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
> ===================
>
> What's the appropriate way to format a floppy with FAT using Linux, so that it can be used in M$Windoze without the need of a native re-formatting?
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
> Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at mail.lycos.co.uk
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-29 16:51 [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy? Michael Kintzios
2005-08-29 17:02 ` Wade Brown [this message]
2005-08-29 17:15 ` Dave Nebinger
2005-08-29 17:32 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2005-08-29 20:20 ` Alex
2005-08-30 12:47 ` Matthias Bethke
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