How to Format 1MB Floppy

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jun 7 11:53:34 GMT 2004


In message <1086607141.314.4.camel at wokshopbsd.oocltd.dom>, Adam Retter writes:
>
>Okay chaps,
>
>im finding it surprisingly difficult to format a 1MB floppy on freebsd.
>I want to format it for msdos.

See fdcontrol(8)

I belive you want "fdcontrol -f 720 fd0".

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