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74 Chapter3
Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
Formatting a New Diskette
If you have floppy diskettes that have been previously formatted using
the mediainit utility, you can skip this section. Otherwise, you must
always format a new floppy diskette with the mediainit utility before
using the diskette. To format a new floppy diskette, follow these steps:
1. Log in as root.
2. Make sure that the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette is in the
write position, as shown in Figure 3-2.
3. Insert the diskette into the floppy disk drive.
4. Type the following at the prompt and press Enter:
mediainit -f 16
devicefile
where 16 is the High Density (HD) format option and
devicefile
is
the device file as listed by SAM. See the section “Using Device Files”
in this chapter. For a listing of format options, see the floppy manual
page. To view this manual page, type the following at the prompt and
press Enter:
man floppy