hi folks
thanks for all the suggestions,
mkfs.msdos -I /dev/sda
did the trick
cheers
tony
John Clarke wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:48:08AM +0900, Antony Stace wrote:
>
> > doesn't want to work....
>
> No, sorry, my fault. fdformat does a low-level format, which I didn't
> know (thanks Ken), mkdosfs just creates the filesystem. I thought you
> were just trying to create the filesystem.
>
> fdformat only works on devices with a major number of 2. You can't
> simply delete this check and recompile the program, because the
> format mechanism is different.
>
> Standard floppy controllers format track-by-track, that is, they need
> to be told to format each track in turn. SCSI devices, however, have a
> format command which formats the entire device at once. IIRC, you need
> to specify the device parameters in the format command.
>
> I was thinking that it'd be fairly easy to write a SCSI format program,
> but I needed some information to do so. A quick google search turned
> up this:
>
> http://pantransit.reptiles.org/prog/archive/scsifmt.c
>
> According to the comments, it's supposed to check that the device is
> a Zip drive, but although there's code present to do that check, the
> function is never called. The only thing I'm not sure of is whether
> it needs to be changed to pass tracks/sectors/heads/sector size in
> the format command. I don't have a SCSI floppy drive on which to
> test it ...
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
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