Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:15:31 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: How to format a disk in an USB-Floppy-drive |
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On Nov 19 2006 19:44, Willy Tarreau wrote: >On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 07:25:34PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> > [~]>./scsifmt /dev/sdd fmt >> > scsifmt: non-sense ioctl error >> > >> > Didn't work too well, too. Any ideas? >> >> >> Does not mkfs suffice? > >No, he's talking about low-level format. This is necessary before writing >anything on a floppy for the first time or after defects have been detected >(remember these old ages ?).
Yeah but the scsi *disk* driver does not seem to handle *floppy* requests (just as it does not handle *cdrom* ioctls). I sense a Missing Feature here.
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