ext2 Create an ext2 (Linux) filesystem on the formatted floppy. format uses the first format capacity reported by -capacity if the -size option is not specified. size=CxBxS, -s=CxBxS Specify the size of the disk to format. format, -f Format the disk in the floppy drive. capacity also calculates how much that is, in capacity lists each availableįormat capacity as CxBxS where: C - number of cylinders, B - blocks per cylinder, S - block size, in bytes. Most floppy drives can format disks of different capacities. capacity, -c Show the available format capacities of the floppy drive. showrc List floppy drives configured in /etc/floppy.
floppy prints on standard output the results of the -probe option in a configuration file format. createrc, -r Print a configuration file. floppy creates and displays a list of all detected floppy drives. Options -probe, -p Probe for available floppy drives. If started from an X terminal window, floppy automatically runs floppygtk. Low-level formatting will ruin themįloppygtk is a GTK interface to the floppy utility. Most LS-120 drives, forĮxample, accept a request to format 120MB high density disks, but most 120MB disks are not designed to be formatted. Note: Use caution in formatting anything other than standard 3.5" 1.4MB floppy disks in ATAPI IDE floppy drives. Without a patched kernelįloppy can only format disks in floppy controller drives. ATAPI IDE support requires a patch to the Linux kernel. floppy uses a simple interface for formatting disks in floppy controller drivesĪnd in ATAPI IDE floppy drives, such as LS-120 "Superdisk" drives. One of the DOS machines is the one with all the midi stuff attached, and the one I do the midi programming and the messing with the midi files, connecting to other boxes via the Roland LAPC-I card, which of course is an old 8 bit ISA card and therefore CANNOT be fitted into anything remotely 'modern'!!īy the way, why did you want to format 720k disk? I understand that a few keyboards/work-stations use them? I've heard the DSDD disks are difficult to find nowadays, although I've got piles of them.The floppy utility does low-level formatting of floppy disks. So, I'm still into floppies, and still into command prompts.
When I got the laptop, I just HAD to get the floppy drive for it as well. Also, there's the CP/M computer, which also has a 3.5" drive, although with a different format, as well as 5.25" and 3" drives.
Actually, all 3 of my PCs still have 3.5" floppy drives, that's the XP main machine, and the two 'antique' DOS machines, both of which still have 5.25" drives as well (although one 5.25" drive doesn't work but hopefully may be fixed one day).
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