Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!uniol!sol.north.de!skuld!wintermute!kaba From: kaba@wintermute.north.de (Kai Bartels) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Floppy Drive Message-ID: <1991May30.005614.2095@wintermute.north.de> Date: 29 May 91 22:56:14 GMT References: Organization: nothing (absolutely nothing) is organized here! Lines: 21 avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) writes: >I'm interested in getting the 3.5 drive to work, but there is little >documentation on how i should prepare a disk to use and which device >it is. From one of the manual entries (fmtflpy i think it was) it >mentioned /dev/dsk/c6d0s0 or some such name. i coudlnt find that >command either curiously. The fstab doesnt mention it (it wouldnt be >a bad idea to put it in commented out). I couln't find the fmtflop either (and I'm sure there isn't any) but I'm formatting the discs on my old A2000 with AmigaDos. mkfs or tar didn't complain! (btw: the device to use seems to be /dev/(r)dsk/fd0.) My question to this is: how to read/write/format a 3.5" disc in ibm-format 720k ? >-darren greetings, Kai -- "The sound of bombs has given way for children's cries" BITNET: g14b@dhbrrz41 + UUCP: kaba@wintermute.north.de Snail: Kai Bartels + Hudemuehler Str. 37 + 2800 Bremen 41 + FRG