Re: BlueDisk now available! (was Re: Mystery card!)

[sknkwrks@lil-ed.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)]

In article <2k5hq4$rs@ionews.io.org> taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao) quotes:
(<a2.13.23.265@genie.geis.com> J.LANGE7@genie.geis.com writes:)
>- MFORMAT (MTools v1.3) won't allow to _change_ the low-level format of
>  the current disk. Blank disks aren't formatted as expected. No GS/OS
>  formatting dialog is presented before formatting begins.

If this mformat is derived from the same mformat I use under Linux,
then it's not supposed to do a low-level format.  mformat's sole
purpose is to put a FAT filesystem on a device that has already been
low-level-formatted.  (Under Linux, fdformat does a low-level format
on a floppy disk.  Another command is then used to put a filesystem on
the disk: mkfs (Minix FS), mke2fs (extended FS), or mformat (FAT FS).)

The above is strictly FYI. :-)

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