Re: LS-120 Formatting?

Alex Diaz (adiaz@scanavia.com)
Sat, 19 Dec 1998 19:43:37 -0800


Under S.u.S.E. 5.3, kernel 2.0.35

mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb
^ my machine's LS-120 is slave on the primary ide channel

works just fine, formats to 120 MB or 1.44 depending on media.

(Machine is an Asus P5A motherboard, AMD K6/2-333 with Award BIOS 4.51PG)

-Alex Diaz

At 03:02 12/17/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I've checked the dox, but cannot seem to find a utility to format LS-120
>floppy disks (either 1.44 or 120M). Has someone modified fdformat to do
>this? I didn't see any ioctl code in the IDE floppy driver to even
>support formatting media, or did I miss it?
>
> Thanks,
> S
>
>-
>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
>Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
>

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/