How to Format 1MB Floppy

Adam Retter adam at otterycomputers.com
Mon Jun 7 11:19:07 GMT 2004


Okay chaps,

im finding it surprisingly difficult to format a 1MB floppy on freebsd.
I want to format it for msdos.

I am trying - 

# newfs -t dos /dev/fd0

but it says - 

newfs: ioctl (GDINFO}: Invalid argument
newfs: /dev/fd0: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified.

I can see from man newfs that to specify the disk type you use -T but im
not sure what the argument for it is?

The disks have this printed on them -  Imation 2DD 1.0MB


Thanks

Adam.

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