Format a 2.88M floppy

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From: H}vard Holm
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 15:11

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Hi

  I'm having a DECstation 5120 with a SCSI-floppydisk, on which I should
be able to use floppy's with a capasity of 2.88M.

When I'm going to format a disk (type RX26K - 4.0M) I get into problems:
  mari11:/dev%newfs /dev/rfd0c RX26
  newfs: /dev/rfd0a: cannot open to read partition table: I/O error
  Warning: missing disk partition table
  newfs: /dev/rfd0c: cannot open: I/O error


I'm not giving up but hopefully try:
  mari11:/dev%rzdisk -f /dev/rfd0c

  Must specify raw device special file.


Since I'm not sure of the difference of raw/char/block-device I try:
  mari11:/dev%rzdisk -f /dev/fd0c

  Must specify raw device special file.


If I try to format a 1.4M floppy disk:
mari11:/dev%newfs /dev/rfd0c rx23
  /dev/rfd0c:     2880 sectors in 80 cylinders of 2 tracks, 18 sectors
          1.5Mb in 5 cyl groups (16 c/g, 0.29Mb/g, 32 i/g)
  super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:


So that runs fine..

If anyone could help to format a 2.88M floppy, please let me know,
I would be very grateful.

Haavard Holm
hholm@mari.unit.no

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Subject: Format a 2.88M floppy
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Date: 6 Sep 92 15:11:20 GMT
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