From 05b75eac75df6115f227dfe3ea3b40fa46b1be9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kirk McKusick Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1985 22:59:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] manual page first distributed with 4.2BSD SCCS-vsn: old/rxformat/rxformat.8 5.1 --- usr/src/old/rxformat/rxformat.8 | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+) create mode 100644 usr/src/old/rxformat/rxformat.8 diff --git a/usr/src/old/rxformat/rxformat.8 b/usr/src/old/rxformat/rxformat.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0284f7d60f --- /dev/null +++ b/usr/src/old/rxformat/rxformat.8 @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. +.\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement +.\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. +.\" +.\" @(#)rxformat.8 5.1 (Berkeley) %G% +.\" +.TH RXFORMAT 8V "28 April 1983" +.UC 5 +.SH NAME +rxformat \- format floppy disks +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B /etc/rxformat +[ +.B \-d +] special +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.I rxformat +program formats a diskette in the specified drive +associated with the special device +.IR special . +( +.I Special +is normally /dev/rrx0, for drive 0, or /dev/rrx1, +for drive 1.) +By default, the diskette is formatted single density; +a +.B \-d +flag may be supplied to force double density formatting. +Single density is compatible +with the IBM 3740 standard (128 bytes/sector). +In double density, each sector +contains 256 bytes of data. +.PP +Before formatting a diskette +.I rxformat +prompts for verification (this allows a user to cleanly +abort the operation; note that +formatting a diskette will destroy any existing data). +Formatting is done by the hardware. +All sectors are zero-filled. +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +`No such device' means that the drive is not ready, +usually because no disk is in the drive or the drive door is open. +Other error messages are selfexplanatory. +.SH FILES +/dev/rx? +.SH SEE ALSO +rx(4V) +.SH BUGS +A floppy may not be formatted if the +header info on sector 1, track 0 has been damaged. Hence, it is not +possible to format a completely degaussed disk. +(This is actually a problem in the hardware.) +.SH AUTHOR +Helge Skrivervik -- 2.20.1