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* [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?
@ 2005-08-29 16:51 Michael Kintzios
  2005-08-29 17:02 ` Wade Brown
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From: Michael Kintzios @ 2005-08-29 16:51 UTC (permalink / raw
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Hi All,

Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this output:
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# 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
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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?
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Regards,
Mick

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