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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:15:31 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de> To: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> cc: Christian Schmidt <lkml@...add.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 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' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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