Compaq Formatting a New Diskette

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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 themediainit utility
before using it. To format a new floppy diskette follow these steps:
1Log in asroot.
2Make sure that the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette is in thewrite position,
as shown in Figure 22.
3Insert the diskette into the floppy disk drive.
4In a terminal window, executemediainit with an interleave of 2 by entering the
following:
mediainit -i 2 devicefile
wheredevicefile is the device file as listed by sam .