# Source: fdutils # Package: fdutils # Versions: # Prioritize: 45 Description: Linux floppy utilities This package contains utilities for formatting extra capacity disks, for automatic floppy disk mounting and unmounting, etc. . The package 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: 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 . Note that these utilities do not work for USB floppy drives, because there is no direct access to the floppy controller. . Homepage http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/fdutils/ Description-km: . . . . # other Descriptions of the fdutils package with a translation in km: #