From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9n9o-0006DB-MY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:10:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7TH83hh010662; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:08:03 GMT Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7TH0xSc025078 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:01:00 GMT Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so1048995rnf for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:02:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jGQY4Z3EDj+hlb6iN8tyFbI0KfYBVTvCRU3KtvKjKWOAml15KKGDnFuhbZeZX7KqSA6T26yv3x2idnt9u4HHMZbRb+ZOXIeIN7u3TYyB9hRB/WwqKNt7MbYuwOWI5utfDlowCpJh3vj4sI2b90B3bR0w0NW7htbrd+sCrlfLamI= Received: by 10.38.11.3 with SMTP id 3mr416491rnk; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:02:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.39.3.65 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:02:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:02:56 -0700 From: Wade Brown To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy? In-Reply-To: <198635627125680@lycos-europe.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <198635627125680@lycos-europe.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7TH0xSc025078 X-Archives-Salt: a3f6ab39-8241-410c-9f50-85b2c09bc3d1 X-Archives-Hash: 433161e1dddb0ca70ca02034b4414f66 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 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 > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list