floppy disk formatting: how to?

[Hiisi]

2009/9/24 Aldo Foot <lunixer at gmail.com>:
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>>
>> Whenever I'm trying the command above I have:
>> floppy --ext2 --format A:
>> floppy 0.16 Copyright 2001-2006, Double Precision, Inc.
>>
>> /dev/fd0H1440: Tiedostoa tai hakemistoa ei ole
>> No formattable capacities for /dev/fd0
>>
>>
>> The penult line means 'The file or directory not found'.
>> What's wrong with it?
>>
> _____
>
> do this command.
>     $ floppy --capacity A:
> To show the available format capacities of the floppy drive and post back.
>
> ~af
>

$ floppy --capacity A:
floppy 0.16 Copyright 2001-2006, Double Precision, Inc.

Formattable capacities for /dev/fd0:
  80x36x512       (/dev/fd0H1440, 1.40 Mb)
  80x18x512       (/dev/fd0D720, 720 Kb)
  80x48x512       (/dev/fd0u1920, 1.87 Mb)
  80x28x512       (/dev/fd0u1120, 1.09 Mb)
  80x40x512       (/dev/fd0u1660, 1.56 Mb)
  80x26x512       (/dev/fd0u1040, 1.01 Mb)
  80x46x512       (/dev/fd0u1840, 1.79 Mb)
  80x42x512       (/dev/fd0u1680, 1.64 Mb)


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