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Formatting a New Diskette
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Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive Operating the Floppy Drive Formatting a New Diskette If you have floppy diskettes that have been previously formatted using the mediainit utility, you can skip this section. Otherwise, you must always format a new floppy diskette with the mediainit utility before using the diskette. 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 3-2. 3. Insert the diskette into the floppy disk drive. 4. Type the following at the prompt and press Enter: mediainit -f 16 devicefile where 16 is the High Density (HD) format option and devicefile is the device file as listed by SAM. See the section "Using Device Files" in this chapter. For a listing of format options, see the floppy manual page. To view this manual page, type the following at the prompt and press Enter: man floppy 74 Chapter 3