SUSE won't Format Floppy Disk

WarlockofVirgo · 12-25-2004, 02:55 PM

I'm using SUSE 9.1 and when I use KFloppy to format a floppy disk is doesn't work. The disk I format in Windows XP works fine when using them in SUSE, but when I try re-formating them with KFloppy it screws up my disk. When the program screws up the disk I can reformat them in windows and they work fine again. So something is wrong with KFloppy that it isn't formating them properly. Any help would be appreciated.

iZvi · 12-25-2004, 03:01 PM

probably you will have to use the command line.

I usually format the floppies with fdformat /dev/fd0. Then I create a filesystem with mke2fs if needed, but usually i use them for images which doesn't need a filesystem.