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<h1>The floppy formatting utility</h1>
<p>This utility program low-level formats floppy disks. This utility is
capable of formatting floppies in LS-120 "Superdisk" ATAPI IDE drives, in
addition to the standard floppy controller drives. At this time, LS-120
support requires a patch to the Linux kernel:</p>
<p>The patch file <code>linux-2.4.0.patch.txt</code> is for kernel 2.4.0.</p>
<p>The patch file <code>linux-2.4.0-0.96.patch.txt</code> is for the 0.96
version of ide-floppy.c</p>
<p>The patch file <code>linux-2.4.7.patch.txt</code> is for kernel 2.4.7.</p>
<p>The patch file <code>linux-2.4.7-ac3.patch.txt</code> is for kernel
2.4.7-ac3.</p>
<p>The patch file <code>linux-2.2.16.patch.txt</code> is for kernel 2.2.16
(and 2.2.17, probably).</p>
<p>Please don't ask me how to apply kernel patches. If you know how to build
and compile the Linux kernel, you know how to apply kernel patches.</p>
<p>The floppy utility can still be used without applying these patches.
You'll just get a jazzed-up version of fdformat.</p>
<p><b>WARNING:</b> Do not attempt to format 120 mb super-floppies. There's
nothing in the floppy utility that blocks any attempt to issue a request to
format a disk, if the floppy drive claims it can do so. Some LS-120 drives
claim to be able to format 120 mb super-floppies, even though these disk are
factory-formatted, AND CANNOT be user-formatted. An attempt to do so will
permanently destroy the superfloppy disk.</p>
<h2>Compiling</h2>
<p>To compile this floppy utility you need to install the libpopt library. It
is a small library used to parse command line arguments. It is included in
most Linux distributions by default. If you don't have it, grab it from
<code><a
href="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/code/popt">ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/code/popt</a></code>
and install it.</p>
<p>You will also need to have the <a href="http://www.gtk.org">GTK
toolkit</a> installed in order to compile the GTK front end to the floppy
utility. Without the GTK toolkit only the command-line utility will be
compiled and installed.</p>
<p>Compiling the floppy utility is straightforward:</p>
<pre>./configure
make
make install (if you care, you can simply run it from the current directory
too).</pre>
<p>That's it. By default, floppy will install in
<code>/usr/local/bin</code>, and use <code>/usr/local/etc/floppy</code> as
its configuration file. The configure script accepts the usual options:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>--prefix=/usr</code>
-- installs <code>/usr/bin/floppy</code>, and uses
<code>/usr/etc/floppy</code></li>
<li><code>--sysconfdir=/etc</code>
-- use <code>/etc/floppy</code> as the configuration file</li>
</ul>
<p>Therefore:</p>
<p><code>--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc</code></p>
<p>This configuration installs <code>/usr/bin/floppy</code>, and uses
<code>/etc/floppy</code> as its configuration file.</p>
<p>The floppy utility can also be built by RPM:</p>
<p><code>rpm -ta floppy-0.12.tar.gz</code></p>
<p>Please see the <a href="floppy.html">installed manual page</a> for
instructions on using the floppy utility.</p>
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