Re: Formatting a USB Floppy on Sony Vaio Z505JE.

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 06:54, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> > > Re-booting with the new kernel and hotplug set up means plugging in
> > > the floppy drive makes /dev/sda, the first SCSI drive, be assigned
> > > to it.  It can then be mounted, etc., as /etc/fd0 used to be.
> > > 
> > > But how to format it?
> > 
> > Well since it's identifying itself as a SCSI device I might suggest
> > using the stand HD formating tools.  Last time I played with USB
> > keychain device that's what I did.
> 
> OK, that sounds very logical, and obvious!  What are the standard HD
> formatting tools?  sformat?  I know it's not mkdosfs, etc.

man mkfs :)  That should give you all the fs creation info you need with
the exception of iso creation... but then again... why would you want to
stick a CD-ROM image on a floppy *lol*

-Andy-