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Introduction
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Fdutils is a collection of utililties for configuring and using the
Linux floppy driver. With fdutils, you can:
1. Format disks with a higher capacity than usual (up to 1992KB on a
3 1/2 HD disk).
2. Reconfigure the autodetection sequence to automatically detect
some of these extended formats.
3. Access various internal driver structures and drive configuration
using the floppycontrol program.
This manual describes these utilities, and also the floppy driver
itself.
Location- Where to get fdutils and its documentation
- Basic usage
- How to get started
- Device numbers
- Media description
- How can a floppy disk and a format be described to fdutils?
- Drive descriptions
- How can a drive and its characteristics be described to fdutils?
- Extended formats
- How to store more data on your floppy disks
- Autodetection
- How the floppy driver distinguishes among the different kinds of disks
- Boottime configuration
- Lilo boot options understood by the floppy driver
- Floppy ioctls
- The ioctl's understood by the floppy driver
- Commands
- The available fdutils commands
- Compile-time configuration
- How to use GNU autoconf to customize fdutils
- Acronyms
- A brief listing of acronyms used in this documentation
- Interesting formats
- A brief list of legacy and other formats
- Command Index
- Command Index
- Concept Index
- Concept Index
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