It IS possible to format a 1.44m floppy in an LS120. The compaq machine I have at work does this all the time .... under windows NT. What is needed is a program to do this under linux!
---"David B. Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > <Stuff deleted> > > > 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. > > Kenneth > > If you find out how to do format a dos floppy in an LS 120 drives, that > would settle my impending purchase on an LS 120 for the new machine in my > life. > > It seems to me that formatting a floppy should be do-able by any drive > that can write to the floppy disk. Or does the floppy drive do something > that the LS 120 cannot? (and that I don't know about? ;) > > > --David > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
