Bug#1355: mformat does not work

[mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)]

Andi Kleen <andi@mlm.extern.lrz-muenchen.de> said:

> mformat does not work.
>
> How to repeat:
>
> # mdir A:
> [ correct directory listing ]
> # mformat A:
> Non-removable media is not supported
> #
>
> I had expected it to format the disk in the A: drive.

I'll leave this bug report open because the error message could
certainly be better.

Mtools can try multiple disk geometries to read a disk, but needs
to know which one you really want to use in order to write on a disk.

You can provide this info to mformat manually:
  SYNOPSIS
       mformat [ -t tracks ] [ -h heads ]  [  -s  sectors  ]  [  -l
       volume label ] drive:
or you can provide information specific to your hardware configuration
by editing /etc/mtools.ref.  There are examples in that file.