Fdutils is a set of tools to handle floppy disk drives. It includes the
following items:

* superformat: formats high capacity disks of (up to 1992k for
  high density disks or up to 3984k for extra density disks)

* fdmount/fdmountd: automatically mounts/unmounts disks when they
  are inserted/removed

* xdfcopy: formats, reads and writes OS/2's XDF disks

* MAKEFLOPPIES: creates the floppy devices in /dev

* getfdprm: prints the current disk geometry (number of sectors,
  track and heads etc)

* setfdprm: sets the current disk geometry

* fdrawcmd: sends raw commands to the floppy driver

* floppycontrol: configure the floppy driver

* General documentation about the floppy driver

Please note that the utilities do not work for USB floppy drives, because these
are handled by the system as emulated SCSI disks, and the tools cannot access
the floppy controller there.

In order to make use of the more exotic floppy formats you may have to create
the corresponding device files in /dev/. To do so, you can use the following
command (as root):

    MAKEFLOPPIES -g

which will probe the floppy driver in the kernel and create just the devices
your kernel supports. Or you can use MAKEDEV to create a default set of
devices.

To make full use of fdmount you may want to set the suid bit for the fdmount
executable. To do so, you can use the fdutilsconfig script, which is
distributed with fdutils.

There are some known issues with superformat on non-i386 and devfs systems.
If superformat does not work for you, you can try "fdformat" from the
util-linux package, instead.

 -- Jochen Voss <voss@debian.org>, Wed Feb 25 20:37:24 2004
