kirkaas@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (paul kirkaas) (08/26/90)
Is there some general way to format floppy disks in an IBM-PC format on the 3b1? The UA package comes with a program to format floppies for the IBM, but it is a binary program and cannot be modified for 3.5" inch floppies, etc. I have MTOOLS, and there is a reference to a program "mkdfs" which supposedly does that, but the source mkdfs.c is not included. Is it possible to use iv to format ibm-pc compatable discs? Any other suggestions? I don't have an IBM machine, but I would like to back up my 3b1 in PC compatable format just in case my machine bites the big one and I get a 386 unix machine to replace it. I had asked on the net previously if a 386 unix machine could read 3b1 3.5" floppies; and got one email response indicating that this was not possible (Thank you, by the way.) I want to put a 3.5" drive to replace the 5.25, but I don't want to commit myself to the 3b1 in perpetuity just because I can't read my backup floppies onto any other machine. Thanks for all that anticipated help --- Paul. -- -- Paul Kirkaas kirkaas@cs.ucla.edu