Formatting A New Diskette - HP C160 Owner's Manual

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:
1 Log in as root.
2 Make sure that the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette is in the write position,
as shown in Figure 22.
3 Insert the diskette into the floppy disk drive.
4 In 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 .
Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
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