1.\" $OpenBSD: fdformat.1,v 1.14 2003/06/12 12:59:50 jmc Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 by Joerg Wunsch, Dresden 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR(S) ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS 16.\" OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 17.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 18.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, 19.\" INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES 20.\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR 21.\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 22.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, 23.\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING 24.\" IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 25.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.Dd September 16, 1993 28.Dt FDFORMAT 1 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm fdformat 32.Nd format floppy disks 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm fdformat 35.Bk -words 36.Op Fl q 37.Op Fl n | v 38.Op Fl c Ar cyls 39.Op Fl s Ar secs 40.Op Fl h Ar heads 41.Op Fl r Ar rate 42.Op Fl g Ar gap3len 43.Op Fl i Ar intleave 44.Op Fl S Ar secshft 45.Op Fl F Ar fillbyte 46.Op Fl t Ar steps_per_track 47.Ar device_name 48.Ek 49.Sh DESCRIPTION 50.Nm fdformat 51formats a floppy disk at device 52.Ar device_name . 53.Ar device_name 54should be a character device; it may be given either with a full path 55name of a raw device node for a floppy disk drive 56.Pq e.g., Pa /dev/rfd0c , 57or default name in an abbreviated form, 58.Pq e.g., Em fd0 . 59Note that any geometry constraints of the device node 60.Pq minor device number 61are meaningless, since they're overridden by 62.Nm fdformat . 63.Pp 64The options are as follows: 65.Pp 66.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact 67.It Fl q 68Suppress any normal output from the command, and don't ask the 69user for confirmation whether to format the floppy disk at 70.Ar device_name . 71.Pp 72.It Fl n 73Don't verify floppy after formatting. 74.Pp 75.It Fl v 76Don't format; verify only. 77.Pp 78.It Fl c Ar cyls 79.It Fl s Ar secs 80.It Fl h Ar heads 81.It Fl r Ar rate 82.It Fl g Ar gap3len 83.It Fl i Ar intleave 84.It Fl S Ar secshft 85.It Fl F Ar fillbyte 86.It Fl t Ar steps_per_track 87An alternate method to specify the geometry data to write to the floppy disk. 88.El 89.Pp 90If the 91.Fl q 92flag has not been specified, the user is asked for confirmation 93of the intended formatting process. 94In order to continue, an answer of 95.Dq y 96must be given. 97.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 98Unless 99.Fl q 100has been specified, a single letter is printed to standard output 101to inform the user about the progress of work. 102First, an 103.Dq F 104is printed when the track(s) is being formatted, then a 105.Dq V 106while it's being verified, and if an error has been detected, it 107will finally change to 108.Dq E . 109.Pp 110An exit status of 0 is returned upon successful operation. 111Exit status 1121 is returned on any errors during floppy formatting, and an exit status 113of 2 reflects invalid arguments given to the program (along with 114appropriate information written to diagnostic output). 115.Sh SEE ALSO 116.Xr fdc 4 117.Sh HISTORY 118.Nm fdformat 119was developed for 386BSD 0.1 and upgraded to the new 120.Xr fd 4 121floppy disk driver. 122It later became part of 123.Fx 1.1 , 124and was then ported to 125.Ox 1.2 . 126.Sh AUTHORS 127The program was contributed by Joerg Wunsch, Dresden, 128with changes by Serge Vakulenko and Andrew A. Chernov, Moscow. 129