From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 27 9:59:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom01.kundenserver.de (moutvdom01.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A413A37B718 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:59:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from [195.20.224.219] (helo=mrvdom03.kundenserver.de) by moutvdom01.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14hxk6-0005ew-00; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:58:54 +0200 Received: from pd9017248.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.1.114.72]) by mrvdom03.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 14hxjz-0007fi-00; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:58:47 +0200 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:51:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa To: "E. Jordan Bojar" Cc: Subject: Re: floppies In-Reply-To: <01Mar27.093934est.115445@gateway.intersys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, E. Jordan Bojar wrote: > I don't normally work with floppies, but I just did a fresh 4.2 install last > night and when I try to format a floppy it tells me "Operation not allowed". > The floppy is _not_ write protected, which was my first thought. The > command is "fdformat /dev/rfd0", right? How was I stupid? I always have to use a sequence of three commands to format a floppy (I took it from someplace in the FreeBSD handbook: # fdformat -f 1440 fd0.1440 # disklabel -B -r -w fd0.1440 fd1440 # newfs -t 2 -u 18 -l 1 -c 40 -i 5120 -m 5 -o space fd0.1440 Uli. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message