Floppy question

[Kerry Hoath]

You should be using superformat not fdformat.
fdformat is extremely old and not recommend to work with modern floppy drivers.
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:46:23AM -0400, Dan Murphy wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hi folks.
> > I'm now running Linux on a dual boot system since the old P166 that I
> had
> > been using specifically for Linux up and went to Pentium heaven.
> > Is it possible for a 3.5 floppy drive to work flawlessly under Win98,
> and
> > give very mixed results under Linux?
> > I am running Slackware 8.0 kernel 2.2.19.  Also if I use the fdformat
> > command to format a floppy, do I need to run makefs as well, or is that
> > further evidence of this drive being messed up?
> > Fortunately I have another here, but I wanted to be sure before I go
> > ripping things apart.
> > thanks.
> >
> >
> > Dan Murphy
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> >
> >
> 
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