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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!kithrup!hoptoad!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!caen!destroyer!gumby!yale!yale.edu!news.yale.edu!yar.trincoll.edu!chappellmac.pc.trincoll.edu!user From: David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu (David Chappell) Subject: Re: [386bsd] formatting a floppy disk Message-ID: <David.Chappell-261092171837@chappellmac.pc.trincoll.edu> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Sender: usenet@starbase.trincoll.edu (SACM Usenet News) Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. References: <1992Oct21.144925.4965@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <1992Oct23.194511.22864@ninja.zso.dec.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 22:17:52 GMT Lines: 15 In article <1992Oct23.194511.22864@ninja.zso.dec.com>, alan@ulka.zso.dec.com (F. Alan Jones) wrote: > > > > > disklabel -w -r fd0 floppy > > The proper name for your "A" drive is "/dev/fd0a". > > Alan disklabel -w -r fd0a floppy Produced "device not configured" as well, even if the floppy is low level formatted.