Probing for Available Floppy Drives floppy -probeThis command probes the hardware and reports on the available floppy drives. eject Eject the floppy from the drive (IDE floppy drives with an electronic eject mechanism). Use a raw output format that can be used by a front-end wrapper that runs floppy on the

noprompt, -n Suppress verbose output produced by -capacity and -format. This option requires the dosfstools package to be installed. fat Create a FAT (DOS) filesystem on the formatted floppy. This option requires the e2fsprogs package to be installed. ext2 Create an ext2 (Linux) filesystem on the formatted floppy. format uses the first format capacity reported by -capacity if the -size option is not specified. size=CxBxS, -s=CxBxS Specify the size of the disk to format. format, -f Format the disk in the floppy drive. capacity also calculates how much that is, in capacity lists each availableįormat capacity as CxBxS where: C - number of cylinders, B - blocks per cylinder, S - block size, in bytes. Most floppy drives can format disks of different capacities. capacity, -c Show the available format capacities of the floppy drive. showrc List floppy drives configured in /etc/floppy.

floppy prints on standard output the results of the -probe option in a configuration file format. createrc, -r Print a configuration file. floppy creates and displays a list of all detected floppy drives. Options -probe, -p Probe for available floppy drives. If started from an X terminal window, floppy automatically runs floppygtk. Low-level formatting will ruin themįloppygtk is a GTK interface to the floppy utility. Most LS-120 drives, forĮxample, accept a request to format 120MB high density disks, but most 120MB disks are not designed to be formatted. Note: Use caution in formatting anything other than standard 3.5' 1.4MB floppy disks in ATAPI IDE floppy drives. Without a patched kernelįloppy can only format disks in floppy controller drives. ATAPI IDE support requires a patch to the Linux kernel. floppy uses a simple interface for formatting disks in floppy controller drivesĪnd in ATAPI IDE floppy drives, such as LS-120 'Superdisk' drives. The floppy utility does low-level formatting of floppy disks.

Formatting floppy disk