I've seen this error on several USB devices I'm working on, also. It
appears that mkfs.msdos needs an actual drive geometery, not just a sector
size and number of sectors.
If anyone knows an easy way around this, I'd like to know it too.
Matt
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:19:17PM -0600, Martin Lichtin wrote:
> Anyone know what the problem could be here?
>
> root# mkfs.msdos -F 32 -I /dev/scd1
> mkfs.msdos: unable to get drive geometry for '/dev/scd1'
> mkfs.msdos 2.2 (06 Jul 1999)
>
> scd1 is a DVD-RAM drive. What's weird is it doesn't happen
> in all cases. Also, creating a ext2 fs on that device
> works just fine.
>
> Thanks for a hint,
> Martin
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