Diskettes and Volume Management
When you insert a diskette into the diskette drive, volume management does not mount the diskette automatically; this prevents excessive reads, which can quickly wear out the diskette drive. You must use the volcheck command or choose a menu option that checks for the presence of a diskette in the diskette drive.
Formatting Diskettes
You can format diskettes in three ways.
With Removable Media Manager.
With the fdformat command.
With the rmformat command.
 | Using Removable Media Manager to Format Diskettes |
You can use the Removable Media Manager graphical user interface to create the following formats and file systems ...
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