From: Christian Schmidt <lkml@digadd.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: How to format a disk in an USB-Floppy-drive
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:09:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <456081CE.9090205@digadd.de> (raw)
Dear all,
How do I actually low-level format a floppy disk in an
USB-Floppy-Disk-Drive?
I tried as with usual drives, using fdformat:
[~]>fdformat /dev/sdd
Could not determine current format type: Invalid argument
But setting the format failed as well:
[~]>setfdprm -p /dev/sdd 1440/1440
ioctl: Invalid argument
Next up scsifmt:
[~]>./scsifmt /dev/sdd fmt
scsifmt: non-sense ioctl error
Didn't work too well, too. Any ideas?
Best regards,
Christian
next reply other threads:[~2006-11-19 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-19 16:09 Christian Schmidt [this message]
2006-11-19 18:25 ` How to format a disk in an USB-Floppy-drive Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-19 18:44 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-11-19 19:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-19 19:25 ` Willy Tarreau
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