Compaq C360, C240, C180, C200, C160 manual Formatting a New Diskette, Mediainit -i 2 devicefile

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:

1Log in as root.

2Make sure that the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette is in the write position, as shown in Figure 22.

3Insert the diskette into the floppy disk drive.

4In 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 .

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