capacity, -c Show the available format capacities of the floppy drive. showrc List floppy drives configured in /etc/floppy. floppy prints on standard output the results of the -probe option in a configuration file format. createrc, -r Print a configuration file. floppy creates and displays a list of all detected floppy drives. Options -probe, -p Probe for available floppy drives. If started from an X terminal window, floppy automatically runs floppygtk. Low-level formatting will ruin themįloppygtk is a GTK interface to the floppy utility. Most LS-120 drives, forĮxample, accept a request to format 120MB high density disks, but most 120MB disks are not designed to be formatted.

Note: Use caution in formatting anything other than standard 3.5' 1.4MB floppy disks in ATAPI IDE floppy drives. Without a patched kernelįloppy can only format disks in floppy controller drives. ATAPI IDE support requires a patch to the Linux kernel. floppy uses a simple interface for formatting disks in floppy controller drivesĪnd in ATAPI IDE floppy drives, such as LS-120 'Superdisk' drives.

The floppy utility does low-level formatting of floppy disks.

Floppy disk is not formatted