Date sent: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:36:17 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@ican.net>
To: "SethMeister G." <seth@home.com>
Copies to: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: LS-120 Formatting?
Organization: Capslock Computer Consulting
> 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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>
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I did mkfs on my LS-120 and it worked just fine. I can't remember
which kernel version it was, but it was in the 2.1.100's.
Glenn C. Hofmann
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