Keep the following in mind when formatting diskettes:
For information on diskette names, see Table 3–1.
Diskettes that are not named (that is, they have no “label”) are assigned the default name of floppy.
A Solaris system can format the following diskette types:
UFS
MS-DOS or NEC-DOS (PCFS)
UDFS
On a Solaris system (either SPARC or x86), you can format diskettes with the following densities.
Diskette Size |
Diskette Density |
Capacity |
---|---|---|
3.5” |
High density (HD) |
1.44 Mbytes |
3.5” |
Double density (DD) |
720 Kbytes |
By default, the diskette drive formats a diskette to a like density. This default means that a 1.44 Mbyte drive attempts to format a diskette for 1.44 Mbytes, regardless of whether the diskette is, in fact, a 1.44 Mbyte diskette, unless you instruct it otherwise. In other words, a diskette can be formatted to its capacity or lower, and a drive can format to its capacity or lower.