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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
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                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)rxformat.8v 6.3 (Berkeley) 6/3/86
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH RXFORMAT 8V "June 3, 1986"
                      8: .UC 5
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: rxformat \- format floppy disks
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B /etc/rxformat
                     13: [
                     14: .B \-d
                     15: ] special
                     16: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     17: The
                     18: .I rxformat
                     19: program formats a diskette in the specified drive
                     20: associated with the special device
                     21: .IR special .
                     22: (
                     23: .I Special
                     24: is normally /dev/rx0, for drive 0, or /dev/rx1,
                     25: for drive 1.)
                     26: By default, the diskette is formatted single density;
                     27: a
                     28: .B \-d
                     29: flag may be supplied to force double density formatting.
                     30: Single density is compatible 
                     31: with the IBM 3740 standard (128 bytes/sector). 
                     32: In double density, each sector
                     33: contains 256 bytes of data.
                     34: .PP
                     35: Before formatting a diskette
                     36: .I rxformat
                     37: prompts for verification if standard input is a tty
                     38: (this allows a user to cleanly
                     39: abort the operation; note that
                     40: formatting a diskette will destroy any existing data).
                     41: Formatting is done by the hardware.
                     42: All sectors are zero-filled.
                     43: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
                     44: `No such device' means that the drive is not ready, 
                     45: usually because no disk is in the drive or the drive door is open.
                     46: Other error messages are selfexplanatory.
                     47: .SH FILES
                     48: /dev/rx?
                     49: .SH SEE ALSO
                     50: rx(4V)
                     51: .SH AUTHOR
                     52: Helge Skrivervik
                     53: .SH BUGS
                     54: A floppy may not be formatted if the
                     55: header info on sector 1, track 0 has been damaged.  Hence, it is not
                     56: possible to format a completely degaussed disk. 
                     57: (This is actually a problem in the hardware.)

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