Re: Floppy disk support for 9000 series (715, 755, etc.) workstations.

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:08:55PM -0500, James K. Love wrote:
> Sure.  I'm working on this for a project that is running Sarge with the 
> 2.6.8 kernel, so I'll need to migrate the changes over to the latest
> sd.c from the parisc-2.6 tree, then clean it up a bit.  I'll post a
> patch as soon as its ready for general consumption.

Awesome - please don't try to make it too perfect if you get short on time.
Just post what you know works.

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> I haven't looked at the fdformat code either, but it aborts early due to the
> scsi floppy device having the wrong major number.  I don't think it even 
> gets to any ioctls.  BTW, the mtools functions all appear to work.

Have you tried sg3-utils?

In particular sg_format might be able to do the low level format
that you want and can then just use mtools to put a FAT file system
on it.

grant