Bostjan Muller wrote:
Hi!
I am trying to format a floppy 3.5" HD to a DOS format readable on a win/DOS machine. Whenever I create a floppy on a linux machine it is either unreadable on windows or it has bad sectors :(
If I format a floppy on a DOS/win machine with the format command the floppy works ok on both linux and win/DOS machine.
I have tried this to format the floppy: sudo fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 && sudo /sbin/mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0
and everything cam out fine it verified as a good floppy with 0 bad sectors.
I also tried kfloppy and formated with density set on HD and file System set on Dos, the setting was set to Full Format.
I am running SuSE 6.2 system.
Has anyone figured this one out yet?
I really don't want to boot to win just to format a floppy readable on a win machine :(
but this is what Windows was made for!! ;-)
THX in advance!
Bostjan
I use a small script like: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/fdformat /dev/fd0h1440 mformat a: for it. (first a lowlevel, than a highlevel format...) Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/