formating Floppy Disks ?

[Shawn Dunn]

No, I think you need to use mformat for dos formatting......

				--Shawn

On Wed, 22 May 2002 10:33:52 +1000
"Mike" <marinated@tpg.com.au> wrote:

> An Apus 3000 Mac clone.  I'll give mke2fs a go, but I would have thought fdfromat should work just as fine.  Will mk2fs format a DOS disk ??
> 
> Mike
> 
> >what sort of machine is this error occurring on?  because mke2fs /dev/fd0 works fine on this machine.......
> >
> >--Shawn
> 
> On Tue, 21 May 2002 14:50:08 +1000
> "Mike" <marinated@tpg.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Having some problems with formatting Floppy Disks with YDL 2.2 ....  Anyone
> > else come across this error ??
> > 
> > [root@localhost config]# /usr/bin/fdformat /dev/fd0
> > Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB.
> > Formatting ...
> > ioctl(FDFMTBEG): Unknown error 515
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
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