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Originally posted by cbkihong
For example, my floppy is detected to be /dev/fd0 (you can also read /etc/fstab to find out).
Mine too, and suddenly (but slowly) it's working!
Thanks for your replies,
Sonshyne5

Well, I guess that was a fluke. The next time I booted into Linux The drive is not accesible, nor for severalmore tries. If I try to access the drive from the icon on the desktop, it waits a long while, and then gives me an error message saying that the drive could not be mounted read/write, but will mount it read only. Then the error message subscripts that there were in/out errors, and the file system could not be determined. This is the same disk that was recognised the one time.
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fdformat

FDFORMAT(8)						       System Administration						       FDFORMAT(8)

NAME

       fdformat - low-level format a floppy disk

SYNOPSIS

       fdformat [options] device

DESCRIPTION

       fdformat does a low-level format on a floppy disk.  device is usually one of the following (for floppy devices the major = 2, and the minor
       is shown for informational purposes only):

	      /dev/fd0d360  (minor = 4)
	      /dev/fd0h1200 (minor = 8)
	      /dev/fd0D360  (minor = 12)
	      /dev/fd0H360  (minor = 12)
	      /dev/fd0D720  (minor = 16)
	      /dev/fd0H720  (minor = 16)
	      /dev/fd0h360  (minor = 20)
	      /dev/fd0h720  (minor = 24)
	      /dev/fd0H1440 (minor = 28)

	      /dev/fd1d360  (minor = 5)
	      /dev/fd1h1200 (minor = 9)
	      /dev/fd1D360  (minor = 13)
	      /dev/fd1H360  (minor = 13)
	      /dev/fd1D720  (minor = 17)
	      /dev/fd1H720  (minor = 17)
	      /dev/fd1h360  (minor = 21)
	      /dev/fd1h720  (minor = 25)
	      /dev/fd1H1440 (minor = 29)

       The generic floppy devices, /dev/fd0 and /dev/fd1, will fail to work with fdformat when a non-standard format is being used, or if the for-
       mat has not been autodetected earlier.  In this case, use setfdprm(8) to load the disk parameters.

OPTIONS

       -n, --no-verify
	      Skip the verification that is normally performed after the formatting.

       -V, --version
	      Output version information and exit.

       -h, --help
	      Display help and exit.

SEE ALSO

       fd(4), setfdprm(8), mkfs(8), emkfs(8)

AUTHOR

       Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)

AVAILABILITY

       The fdformat command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux							     July 2011							       FDFORMAT(8)