From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 12:34:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8014716A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:34:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caine.easynet.fr (smarthost144.mail.easynet.fr [212.180.1.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49F243D2D for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:34:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from [212.180.127.72] (helo=tatooine.tataz.chchile.org) by caine.easynet.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CI4on-0006yn-P2; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:34:54 +0200 Received: by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 53B5A408E; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:34:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:34:24 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Bruce M Simpson Message-ID: <20041014123424.GJ16534@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <20041014071051.GP718@empiric.icir.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041014071051.GP718@empiric.icir.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Broken-Reverse-DNS: no host name found for IP address 212.180.127.72 cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ufdformat(1) -- format disks in USB floppy drives. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 12:34:56 -0000 Hi Bruce, > I've written a command to format USB floppies. You will need the scsi_da.h > and umass.c patches recently committed to -CURRENT in order to use it. > If there is enough demand it can be pushed back into the tree. > > It can be found at: > http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/ufdformat/ > > Please try it out and let me know your thoughts. In which way does ufdformat(1) differs from fdformat(1) ? I mean I feel quite counter-intuitive to have two differents commands to finally achieve the same thing, formatting floppies, even if they don't work on the same underlying bus. I think this difference should be made transparent to users. Regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen jeremie@le-hen.org