From: Michael Pereckas (mper@uipsuxb.ps.uiuc.edu)
Date: 05/29/92 

From: mper@uipsuxb.ps.uiuc.edu (Michael Pereckas)
Subject: Re: fdformat
Date: Sat, 30 May 1992 01:29:04 GMT

audit036@spacm1.spac.spc.com (David.L.) writes:

>Compiled 'fdformat.c' and ran it on 1.44 & 1.2 Mb. diskettes :) happy me :)
>BUT - the results are unreadable by mtools or dos :(

fdformat only low-level formats the disk. It does not write any
filesystem information. To use the fdformated disk for a DOS filesystem,
run mformat on the disk. Mformat writes DOS filesystem information to
the disk, but does not low-level format it. To put a Linux filesystem
on the disk, use mkfs.

Michael Pereckas