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 18.

3Insert the diskette into the floppy disk drive.

4Click on the Terminal Control on the Front Panel of your Workspace.

Terminal Control

A terminal window opens.

5Move the mouse cursor into the terminal window and click the left mouse button.

6Execute mediainit with an interleave of 2 by entering the following:

mediainit -i 2 /dev/rfloppy/c20Ad1s0

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