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Linux-Announce Digest #61
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Thu Mar 3 18:13:08 2005
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Linux-Announce Digest #61, Volume #5 Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:13:05 EST
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Fdutils 5.5 released (floppy disk utilities) (Alain Knaff)
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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:53:10 CST
From: Alain Knaff <alain.knaff@lll.lu>
Reply-To: alain@knaff.lu
Subject: Fdutils 5.5 released (floppy disk utilities)
Fdutils-5.5 is released. This is mainly a bug fix release, addressing
the following issues:
* Superformat disk verification works again in "verify after each
track" mode
* Misc minor fixes, especially compatibility with newer kernels
* File-descriptor handling
The fdutils 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.
Fdutils can be found at the following locations:
http://www.fdutils.linux.lu/
http://ftp.tux.org/pub/knaff/fdutils
and soon at:
ftp://ibiblio.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management
The sha1sums are:
3e7478d321ff2f9bc1f53ed09f9585e6e8ca813f fdutils-5.5.tar.gz
e2a8a2d6877d65db6fe3bc2070e319c38246df94 fdutils-5.5-1.i586.rpm
The package includes the following items:
- 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
- general documentation about the floppy driver
There is an fdutils mailing list at fdutils@tux.org . Please send all
bug reports to this list. You may subscribe to the list by sending a
message with 'subscribe' in its body or subject to
fdutils-request@tux.org, or by visiting:
http://www.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fdutils
Alain
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