Floppy disk formatting fails

      Last changed 27. Jan 1997

      Description

      Floppy disk formatting fails with Xadmin or manually. Error message /dev/fd0H1440: No such file or directory.

      Reason

      The floppy disk devices have been renamed for Linux 2.0. Xadmin and the fdformat manual page have not been updated.

      Fix

      The problem will be fixed in Unifix Linux 2.0.1.

      Workaround

      Format floppy disks manually with fdformat. For 1440 KB floppy disks, use the device /dev/fd0u1440: 

              fdformat /dev/fd0u1440
      For a complete list of floppy disk devices, read file Documentation/devices.txt from the kernel source archive.

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