Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Dec 1998 20:04:27 +0000 (GMT) | From | "Alex Butcher(linkern)" <> | Subject | Re: LS-120 Formatting? |
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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.
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... :)
> Thanks, > S
Alex (only uses ATAPI for a CD-ROM, so all that was guesses...)
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