🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,

I've just got my nice brand spanking new decstation 5000/25 and I'm
attempting to use the floppy drive.  I've identified the fd0 devices in /dev
as the appropriate locations to address, but I'm having trouble successfully
using the device.

My guess is that when I pop in one of the two disks they provide you with
that you have to use newfs to format the disk, and then use mount to get to
it.  Every time I attempt this using the rx26 pattern in disktab I get an
error involving a failure to access the partition table.

I previously used Suns and they had a format command that would allow you to
reformat disks - is there something like this on a DS, because I can't find
one?  Any help from the gurus out there would be appreciated.

NB.  Has anyone developed scripts to do this sort of thing: format a floppy
disk, mount the drive, unmount the drive, etc..?


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