On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
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> havn't done so yet). I also have yet to find a way to format floppies
> on the ls120 under linux (works under windows). I am using the ls120
Umm, wouldn't a simple '/sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc' do the trick (works
for
floppies under /dev/fd0 as I recall)? Or does that just assume it's a
120M
disc? Oh, I don't know...
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Thats a 'high level' format. LS120 disks come preformatted (low
level) and you can't re-lowlevel them because that is done with a
laser (they use a laser hole servo). But dos and windows can low
level format 1.44m floppies IN AN LS120. If I could get linux to do
that I could 86 my floppy drive an use it's interrupt for something
else.
Note that for floppies, linux has two format operations, on for low
level , and one to create the filesystem. On dos or windows the two
operations are combined into one step.
Cheers
Dave
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