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Korab

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[SOLVED] Format 720Kb Floppy on Archlinux

Hi there!

How I can format 720Kb Floppy on Archlinux. Setfdprm has been removed...

Last edited by Korab (2009-09-25 06:17:49)

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Gen2ly

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Re: [SOLVED] Format 720Kb Floppy on Archlinux

Think I've seen something on the FreeDOS website.  Been a long time though.

Oop, just saw this:

mformat?

Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-09-25 06:01:57)

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Korab

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Re: [SOLVED] Format 720Kb Floppy on Archlinux

Thank you @Gen2ly for a reply.

I found simply solution

first set node in dev and format floppy as 720 kB

# mknod /dev/fd0u720 b 2 16
# fdformat /dev/fd0u720

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