From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) Subject: Re: reusing linux-ized disks for DOS Date: 19 Aug 1992 08:29:23 GMT
vince@halcyon.com (Vince Skahan) writes:
>is there any special magic required to get linux-ized floppies back
>to a DOS format ???
Two solutions: 1) You replace DOS' braindead format program with
something better (no, I don't know of anything, unless you count Linux'
fdformat + mtools), or 2) use the /u (I think) switch to force a format.
I could say something even nastier about format programs that won't
format a floppy, but since the DOS format program can be made to do it,
I won't. (That wasn't the case with a certain other format program in a
somewhat wellknown utility package; that one just plainly refused to
believe that yes, I really did want to format a a _partly_ formatted
disk. I hate programs that try to be too smart and fail.)