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Fdutils-2.4 (floppy configuration & formatting utilities)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Jan 26 18:55:27 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:54:15 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: Alain.Knaff@imag.fr
Subject: Fdutils-2.4 (floppy configuration & formatting utilities)
From: Alain Knaff <Alain.Knaff@imag.fr>
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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I have uploaded fdutils-4.2 to sunsite and ftp.imag.fr. This
package contains utilities for configuring and debugging the Linux
floppy driver, for formatting extra capacity disks (up to 1992K on a
high density disk), and for sending raw commands to the floppy
controller.
At sunsite, the fdutils are now in Incoming/fdutils-4.2.src.tar.gz
and will soon be moved to /pub/Linux/system/Misc. At ftp.imag.fr, they
are in pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils
The package includes the following utilities:
- superformat: formats high capacity disks of (up to 1992k for high
density disks or up to 3984k for extra density disks)
- fdmount: automatically mounts/unmounts disks when they are
inserted/removed.
- xdfcopy: formats, reads and writes OS/2's XDF disks.
- MAKEFLOPPIES: creates the floppy devices in /dev
- getfdprm: prints the current disk geometry (number of sectors,
track and heads etc)
- setfdprm: sets the current disk geometry
- fdrawcmd: sends raw commands to the floppy driver
- floppycontrol: configure the floppy driver
The package also contains general documentation about the floppy driver.
I suggest you get mtools-2.5.4 too. Indeed superformat and xdfcopy
depend on features in mformat which are not present in mtools-2.0.7
Alain
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