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<h1>The floppy formatting utility</h1>

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:

The patch file <code>linux-2.4.0.patch.txt</code> is for kernel 2.4.0.

The patch file <code>linux-2.4.0-0.96.patch.txt</code> is for the 0.96
version of ide-floppy.c

The patch file <code>linux-2.4.7.patch.txt</code> is for kernel 2.4.7.

The patch file <code>linux-2.4.7-ac3.patch.txt</code> is for kernel
2.4.7-ac3.

The patch file <code>linux-2.2.16.patch.txt</code> is for kernel 2.2.16
(and 2.2.17, probably).

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.

The floppy utility can still be used without applying these patches.
You'll just get a jazzed-up version of fdformat.

WARNING: 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.

<h2>Compiling</h2>

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.

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.

Compiling the floppy utility is straightforward:
<pre>./configure
make
make install (if you care, you can simply run it from the current directory
too).</pre>

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:
<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>

Therefore:

<code>--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc</code>

This configuration installs <code>/usr/bin/floppy</code>, and uses
<code>/etc/floppy</code> as its configuration file.

The floppy utility can also be built by RPM:

<code>rpm -ta floppy-0.12.tar.gz</code>

Please see the <a href="floppy.html">installed manual page</a> for
instructions on using the floppy utility.
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