On Oct 20,  5:25pm, Jeremy Alan Green wrote:
> How does one go about formatting a floppy disk?  I tried to do it and it
> said that there were a whole bunch of write errors.

  You should be able to do it with:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rfd0a bs=11k count=80
(or bs=22k for high-density drives).

> Also, is it possible to mount an ms-dos filesystem from a floppy?

  Maybe, but only if the floppy was formatted with the AmigaDOS track format.
The floppy driver doesn't know how to handle the IBM sector format yet.

Micahel

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