Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: LS-120 Formatting? | From | Paul Flinders <> | Date | 19 Dec 1998 11:58:36 +0000 |
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"Alex Butcher(linkern)" <linkern@cocoa.demon.co.uk> writes:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, SethMeister G. wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've checked the dox, but cannot seem to find a utility to format LS-120 > > floppy disks (either 1.44 or 120M). Has someone modified fdformat to do > > this? I didn't see any ioctl code in the IDE floppy driver to even > > support formatting media, or did I miss it? > > My guess is that seeing as the LS-120 is an ATAPI device, you probably want > to modify a low-level SCSI formatter to do the job for you. Once you've > LL formatted it, just chuck a filesystem on it, be it FAT or ext2fs.
It is ATAPI. I tried the SCSI emulator and my LS120 doesn't appear to work under it - this may warrent more investigation.
> > Look for scsifmt.lsm and you'll find my low-level SCSI formatter that I > wrote for Zip drives. I believe that ATAPI even uses the same command > numbers, but failing that, you could always try using the ide-scsi emulation > in the kernel... :)
Ok, that could be very useful. At the moment I'm hoping that the LS120 supports "FORMAT_UNIT" which should make it very easy.
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