Floppy Drive

[Kai Bartels]

avalon at 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

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