[15885] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi [8.1.16]: mkfp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Wed Apr 8 10:06:04 1998
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Apr 1998 02:45:59 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 10:06:00 EDT
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
I'll grant you, I don't consider panicking the machine as a reasonable
failure mode.
but mkfp isn't for zip disks. from the man page:
Supported floppy types for FAT file system and their corresponding
special files are :
1. 360K, DS, DD, 5.25 inch disk /dev/rdsk/fds?d?.48
2. 720K, DS, DD, 3.5 inch disk /dev/rdsk/fds?d?.3.5
3. 1.2M, DS, HD, 5.25 inch disk /dev/rdsk/fds?d?.96hi
4. 1.4M, DS, HD, 3.5 inch disk /dev/rdsk/fds?d?.3.5hi
5. 20M floptical, 3.5 inch disk /dev/rdsk/fds?d?.3.5.20m
Supported floppy types for HFS file system and their corresponding
special files are :
1. 1.4M, DS, HD, 3.5 inch disk /dev/rdsk/fds?d?.3.5hi
2. 20M floptical, 3.5 inch disk /dev/rdsk/fds?d?.3.5.20m
3. 44M, 88M, 105M, 200M, 270M SyQuest cartridge /dev/rdsk/fds?d?.48
I think you want to use something from the mtools locker. Possibly
mformat?
mike
