Re: floppy low-level format

[Eric Reischer <reischer@psu.edu>]

If you mean you want to erase every last cluster on the disk, then you can 
use the following command to do that, no matter what type of drive it is:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 count=<how far you want to go......omit to 
clear whole disk>

This should essentially create a floppy disk with absolutely no information 
on it; not even a boot sector.  From there you can format as usual to 
create a usable filesystem on the disk.

Eric


At 11:13 AM 12/5/00 , Andre Berger wrote:
> I haven't figure out yet how to do a low-level format on /dev/fd0 on
> PPCs, can anybody help me?
>
> My machine is a PowerBook 3400/potato/2.2.17, the floppy drive comes
> as a module (hardware module of course :)).
>
> Thank you,
> Andre
>
>
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