From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933055AbWKSTZK (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:25:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933057AbWKSTZK (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:25:10 -0500 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:21509 "EHLO 1wt.eu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933055AbWKSTZI (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:25:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:25:02 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Christian Schmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to format a disk in an USB-Floppy-drive Message-ID: <20061119192502.GA23136@1wt.eu> References: <456081CE.9090205@digadd.de> <20061119184436.GC577@1wt.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 08:15:31PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > 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. I'm just wondering whether an SCSI floppy drive should support the hard disk command set (including low-level fmt). I'm not even sure that our sd driver supports those commands itself ! Clearly smelling -ENOFEATURE... Regards, Willy