Re: LS-120 Formatting?

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:17:25 +0300 (MSK)


17-Dec-98 09:36 you wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, SethMeister G. wrote:

>>I've checked the dox, but cannot seem to find a utility to format LS-120
>>floppy disks (either 1.44 or 120M). Has someone modified fdformat to do
>>this? I didn't see any ioctl code in the IDE floppy driver to even
>>support formatting media, or did I miss it?

> I would think that mkfs.whateverfilesystem is transparent to the
> actual device that is used, and that that stuff is buried in the
> virtuality of the kernel. Or am I missing something?

Yes. mkfs.whateverfilesystem could not do low-level format :-((

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