Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:51:29 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Formatting a USB floppy in FreeBSD [SOLVED] Message-ID: <416E9271.6050700@portaone.com> In-Reply-To: <20041006120031.GD1794@empiric.icir.org> References: <20041006092156.GA690@empiric.icir.org> <20041006112834.GC1794@empiric.icir.org> <20041006120031.GD1794@empiric.icir.org>
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Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:28:34AM -0700, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
>
>>camcontrol cmd ${DEVNAME} \
>> -c "04 17 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00" \
>> -o 12 "00 A0 00 08 00 00 0B 40 00 00 02 00"
>
>
> Bung a -t 140 in there so you don't get a complaint about mode auto-sense
> when the format has not yet completed. 140 seconds to format a floppy
> may be a bit excessive, but do bear in mind this doesn't verify the format
> as it goes along.
>
> A CAM-based program to format removable media (including UFI floppies)
> track-by-track wouldn't have that problem, and would be able to verify,
> give you progress indications, etc.
>
> I hope the simple camcontrol example above serves to demonstrate the
> problem is more or less cracked. I'm happy to live with a simple shell
> script wrapper with the above for now, or even just an alias for csh:
>
> alias ufdformat 'camcontrol cmd \!* -t 140 -c "04 17 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00" -o 12 "00 A0 00 08 00 00 0B 40 00 00 02 00"'
Maybe it's worth to at least put it into ufd manpage, so that it doesn't
lost in noise.
-Maxim
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