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Thank you all, |
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> From:: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de> |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy? |
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> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:32:24 +0200 |
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> Hi, |
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> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:51:54 +0000 (GMT) |
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> "Michael Kintzios" <michaelkintzios@××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > Using fdisk to check the partition table of a FAT floppy gave me this |
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> > output: |
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> > [...] |
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> Just a side note here (mtools and mkfs.vfat would solve the actual |
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> task): partition table of a floppy disk? well, you could create one, |
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> but i guess _that_ would definately lead to a floppy not working with |
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> Windows... There's usually no partition table on a floppy disc. The |
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> whole device is used for one filesystem instead ("superdisc"?). |
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> This is actually a little bit different with USB disks: Both variants |
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> are common there (w/ and w/o partition table). |
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Hans, I thought that there was a Cylinders/Heads/Sectors entry at the beginning of a FAT formatted floppy (and that a Linux created floppy partition will additionally require zeroing the first 512B using dd for M$Windoze OS to recognise it?) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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