1 .\" Copyright 1992, 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
2 .\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
3 .TH FDFORMAT 8 "1 February 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
5 fdformat \- Low-level formats a floppy disk
12 does a low level format on a floppy disk.
14 is usually one of the following (for floppy devices, the major = 2, and the
15 minor is shown for informational purposes only):
19 /dev/fd0d360 (minor = 4)
20 /dev/fd0h1200 (minor = 8)
21 /dev/fd0D360 (minor = 12)
22 /dev/fd0H360 (minor = 12)
23 /dev/fd0D720 (minor = 16)
24 /dev/fd0H720 (minor = 16)
25 /dev/fd0h360 (minor = 20)
26 /dev/fd0h720 (minor = 24)
27 /dev/fd0H1440 (minor = 28)
29 /dev/fd1d360 (minor = 5)
30 /dev/fd1h1200 (minor = 9)
31 /dev/fd1D360 (minor = 13)
32 /dev/fd1H360 (minor = 13)
33 /dev/fd1D720 (minor = 17)
34 /dev/fd1H720 (minor = 17)
35 /dev/fd1h360 (minor = 21)
36 /dev/fd1h720 (minor = 25)
37 /dev/fd1H1440 (minor = 29)
41 The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work with
43 when a non-standard format is being used, or if the format has not been
44 autodetected earlier. In this case, use
46 to load the disk parameters.
51 No verify. This option will disable the verification that is performed
59 Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)