What to Do

1. Insert the diskette into the diskette drive.

2. From the console device, enter the fdformat command.

   Type the appropriate command, as listed for your diskette. It takes a minute or two for the system to format the diskette.

   Table 11-1  

   Diskette Density	Storage Capacity  (Formatted)	Command
   High Density (HD)	1.44 Mbytes	fdformat
   Medium Density (MD)	1.2 Mbytes	fdformat -m
   Low Density (2DD)	720 Kbytes	fdformat -l

You can now write to and read from the diskette.