I've often wanted to be a Curator, for a Computer History Museum.
Kenneth Parker
On Wed 20 Mar 2019 at 21:01:00 (+0100), Anders Andersson wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 5:43 PM David Wright wrote:
> > On Sun 17 Mar 2019 at 13:19:29 (+0100), Anders Andersson wrote:
> > > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> > > so that it Just Works™ as a s
> Since it was the industry standard for "sneakernet" file
> transfer for over a decade, I don't think it's a strange use case.
> What did I miss?
The two decades that passed by since? ;-)
Especially since the media was notoriously unreliable back then and it
probably hasn't gotten better with a
> I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
Reading the manpage of mkfs.fat gives me the impression that
mkfs.fat /dev/sdc
should do the trick. Have you tried?
Stefan
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 5:43 PM David Wright wrote:
>
> On Sun 17 Mar 2019 at 13:19:29 (+0100), Anders Andersson wrote:
> > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
>
> I'm not sure that you really can. What's yo
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 1:46 PM Curt wrote:
>
> On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson wrote:
> > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
> > Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it
> > ap
On Sun 17 Mar 2019 at 13:19:29 (+0100), Anders Andersson wrote:
> I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
I'm not sure that you really can. What's your reasoning for
doing this? Are you just spoiling for an unnece
Curt wrote:
> On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson wrote:
> > I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
> > Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it
> > appears that I can not supply a devi
On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson wrote:
> I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
> Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it
> appears that I can not supply a device name, just "emulated
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