Of course, /dev/sdX has to be replaced with the path to your floppy drive. If you run into an error that /dev/sg* cannot be found just make a link to it: ln -s /dev/sdX /dev/sg1 To run it and start the formatting, issue the following command: sudo. The tool we'll want to use is ufiformat and you can find it here. If you have a Windows 3.1 Model it might support 1,44MB disks as well, at least mine does, so maybe you can save a step here if you just test for that.įormatting the Disks with Linux is quite easy as long as you got a disk drive that supports the format. Why wouldn't it work? Well, the NEC PC98 reads and writes 1,2MB Floppy Disks, so you will have to format the disks accordingly and not all drives support this. Fortunately someone was selling a drive made by NEC themselves in 2003, the NEC UF0002, and while this does not show up on any compatibility lists I figured this just has to work, and it does! ★ Formatting Floppy Disks ★ I picked up the first pack of floppies I could find on amazon and checked out our local craigslist competitor for a used disk drive. Of course the next thing to look into after turning on my PC98 Note and playing around with it for a while was writing disk images and transferring files. Microsoft MS-DOS 6.20 (3.5-1.A lot of this information comes from this post from Lainblog, so please check it out as well if you are interested in writing PC98 Floppies!

Microsoft MS-DOS 6.20 Supplemental Disk (5.25-1.2mb) Microsoft MS-DOS 6.20 Plus Enhanced Tools Windows 3.1 (ISO) Microsoft MS-DOS 6.20 Plus Enhanced Tools (5.25-1.2mb) Microsoft MS-DOS 6.20 Plus Enhanced Tools (3.5-1.44mb) Product type OS Vendor Microsoft Release date 1993 Minimum CPU 8088 Minimum RAM 512KB Minimum free disk space 6MB User interface Text Platform DOS Download count 1233 (44 for release) Downloads Download name

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