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Subject: Re: floppy disk - device not configured error
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> 
> 
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> 
> > Is the floppy formatted?   Used fdformat for that or do it
> > on a MS machine.
> > 
> > Also, write to /dev/fd0c   or /dev/rfd0c.
> > 
> > Here is just what I do and have done many times.
> > 
> >    First format two floppies for 1.4 meg using fdformat
> >    ->    'fdformat -f 1440'    is enough.  It will prompt for the rest
> >    then
> >    ->    'dd if=boot-image of=/dev/rfd0c'   for boot floppy
> >      (change floppy :)
> >    and
> >    ->    'dd if=mfs-image of=/dev/rfd0c'    for mfs floppy
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong but isin't dd a raw write to the device when used
> in this way? Hence a pre-formatting is not required?
> 
> Preformatting may help I'm not to sure, I know that I have never had to do
> it for a boot floppy creation.

Hmmm.    I didn't think so at first, but I had trouble writing to
the floppy if I used an unformatted disk.   That was way back in
v 2.x and 3.x and I started doing it that way and since it worked
haven't changed how I do it.

////jerry

> 
> R.
>