Re: Formatting a USB Floppy on Sony Vaio Z505JE.

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 18:58, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've just installed Debian Woody, kernel-source-2.4.18, on a PCG-Z505JE
> and am slowly getting everything working.
> 
> I've just got USB floppy read access using /dev/sda going.  How do I
> format a floppy?  fdformat uses floppy-drive only ioctls.  Same with
> setfdparam.  I don't mean write the filesystem data to it, but perform a
> `write track' in FDC 1772 terms.

May I ask for my sake and that of the list how you got the USB floppy
working?  I've never had a good try at mine and woudln't know where to
start if/when I do.

That said, I doubt I'd use it once working but it's nice to think I
could :)

Thanks,

Ryan