Re: LS-120 Formatting?

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:36:17 -0500 (EST)

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?

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