Reference

fdformat(1)

Low-level formats a floppy disk

NAME

fdformat - Low-level formats a floppy disk

SYNOPSIS

fdformat [ -n ] device

DESCRIPTION

fdformat does a low level format on a floppy disk. device is usually one of the following (for floppy devices, the major = 2, and the minor is shown for informational purposes only):

/dev/fd0u360 
/dev/fd0u1200
/dev/fd0u360 
/dev/fd0u360 
/dev/fd0u720 
/dev/fd0u720 
/dev/fd0u360 
/dev/fd0u720 
/dev/fd0u1440
/dev/fd1d360
/dev/fd1h1200
/dev/fd1D360
/dev/fd1H360
/dev/fd1D720
/dev/fd1H720
/dev/fd1h360
/dev/fd1h720
/dev/fd1H1440
The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work with
fdformat
when a non-standard format is being used, or if the format has not been
autodetected earlier.  In this case, use
setfdprm(8)
to load the disk parameters.

OPTIONS

-n

No verify. This option will disable the verification that is performed after the format.

SEE ALSO

fd(4), setfdprm(8), superformat(1)

AUTHOR

Werner Almesberger ([email protected]) wrote the original C program. Michael Meskes ([email protected]) wrote the replacement shell script.