Formating a 1680k floppy

Jason Taylor jason at infinitebubble.com
Sun Apr 3 14:03:16 PDT 2005


How do I format a 1680k floppy?  I tried:

%fdformat -s 21,,,,80 /dev/fd0

That just produces a line of errors.  That is EEEE... instead of 
VVVV....  I'm able to format the same floppy in Windows using WinImage.

%uname -a
FreeBSD odin.infinitebubble.com 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 
#0: Mon Jan  3 21:48:36 PST 2005 
jason at odin.infinitebubble.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


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