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SubjectRe: How to format a disk in an USB-Floppy-drive

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.



-`J'
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