02-29-2008
Check your motherboard bios for a floppy controller
Just because you don't have a floppy drive in your computer doesn't mean that the mother board doesn't have a floppy drive controller on it. Most mother boards still have the onboard floppy controller on them. Sco 6 will see the floppy drive controller, and even though there is no floppy drive on it, Sco 6 will consider the onboard floppy contoller as FD0, thus any USB floppy you connect will end up being FD1.
You then need to address the USB floppy as if it was the 2nd floppy drive, not the first.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Solaris
Hello all..
I have a Verbatim 2 GB flash drive. I also have Solaris 10 running on my workstation. If I am in the Windows environment, it detects the flash drive. But when I plug it while I am in solaris, nothing happens. How will solaris 10 detect my flash drive? What do I have to do?
any... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: vr76413
4 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hello forum..
i am using RHEL 4.0 and my system is dual boot.normally the usb flash drive should be auto mount , but in my system i am unable to mount the drive plz help...
i am a new user so plz give me in detail.
thank u in advance. (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: manoranjan
5 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Where can I get a driver that support usb flash drives for my unix machines. I need a solution to transfer data easily for techs. I am running C3750 and c8000 HP equipment.
Or is there a way to mount them and use them without adding drivers? thanks! (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: jkend12
0 Replies
4. Solaris
# rmformat
Looking for devices...
1. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p0
Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/sd@0,0
Connected Device: HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GWA4164B E113
Device Type: DVD Reader/Writer
2. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0
Physical Node:... (26 Replies)
Discussion started by: seyiisq
26 Replies
5. Solaris
hi, first of all, i would really like to know how to find out where my usb is in the system. if i "cd to /dev/usb i have a hub0 to hub4 and hid0 -- hid5 .. how do i know where my usb is?
and i guess once i find out which one my usb is at, i can do something like "mount /dev/usb/xxx /tmp" ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: k2k
5 Replies
6. Ubuntu
I am working on an Ubuntu Linux 8.10 system that I do not want to reboot. For some reason, USB flash drives (mass storage devices) now no longer automount. I want to restore that functionality without rebooting. I can manually mount and unmount these things by doing:
cd /media
sudo mkdir thing... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ropers
4 Replies
7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Can someone help me with instructions on how to access a USB flash drive in SCO Unix 5.0.5? I need to copy ASCII text files that have been zipped onto the USB drive for transfer to a Windows computer. (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: jlodata
0 Replies
8. SCO
I wish to mount a USB pen drive to allow me copy files from the pc to the pen drive.
when I insert the dirve I get a message
umass Attached: Kingston DataTraveler 2.0, rev 2.0, usb_id 2
The version of unix is SCO_SV.
I cannot see any new file in the /dev folder. I was looking for... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: ralph2010
5 Replies
9. Boot Loaders
I wanna install grub on my flash drive for rescue usage.
My computer installs winxp, and I have fedora12 installed in vmware. I did like this:
step1: format the flash drive as FAT in winXP.
step2: in fedora12, mount the flash drive on /media/flash
step3: excute the command: grub-install... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: vistastar
10 Replies
10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello All,
I faced a unique issue. I have written a script for transferring backup data on my host machine to a USB Flash drive. The Flash drive must be of 16GB size. So, my script creates two primary partitionon the USB flash drive. I require approx 5900 cylinders for the first partition on... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: Pkumar Sachin
8 Replies
FORMAT(1) General Commands Manual FORMAT(1)
NAME
format - format a PC floppy diskette
SYNOPSIS
format [-v] device [media-size [drive-size]]
DESCRIPTION
Format allows a user with read-write permission to device to format a floppy. Either one of the special floppy devices must be used, see
fd(4), or an automatic device may be used with the size of the floppy specified on the command line. Two sizes must be given when format-
ting a low density diskette in a high density drive. For example:
format /dev/at1
format /dev/fd1 1200
format /dev/fd1 360 1200
The first two commands format a 1.2M diskette, the last formats a 360k diskette in a 1.2M drive. A 1.44M drive knows when it's dealing
with a low density floppy, so all these commands format a 720k diskette:
format /dev/fd0 720
format /dev/fd0 720 1440
format /dev/ps0
No sizes may be specified when using a special floppy device, a size must be specified when using an automatic device.
OPTIONS
-v Verify the process by reading each track after formatting it. Formatting is normally blind, the controller has no idea whether it
succeeds or not. Use -v on a new box of cheap diskettes, or on a diskette that may have gone bad. Verifying will increase format-
ting time by 50%.
SEE ALSO
mkfs(1), fd(4).
DIAGNOSTICS
Numbers will be printed on standard output to show that it is busy. The locations of bad sectors are printed on standard error when veri-
fying. The exit code is zero unless there are too many bad spots.
AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
FORMAT(1)