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Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive Operating the Floppy Drive Formatting a New Diskette You must always format a new floppy diskette with the mediainit utility before using it. To format a new floppy diskette follow these steps: 1 Log in as root. 2 Make sure that the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette is in the write position, as shown in Figure 17. 3 Insert the diskette into the floppy disk drive. 4 In a terminal window, execute mediainit with an interleave of 2 by entering the following: mediainit -i 2 devicefile where devicefile is the device file as listed by sam. 69
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Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
Formatting a New Diskette
You must always format a new floppy diskette with the
mediainit
utility
before using it. To format a new floppy diskette follow these steps:
1
Log in as
root
.
2
Make sure that the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette is in the
write
position,
as shown in Figure 17.
3
Insert the diskette into the floppy disk drive.
4
In a terminal window, execute
mediainit
with an interleave of 2 by entering the
following:
mediainit
-i
2
devicefile
where
devicefile
is the device file as listed by
sam
.