From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 14 13:09:25 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 5E92C16A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:09:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tower.berklix.org (bsd.bsn.com [194.221.32.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7125243D3F for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:09:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from js.berklix.net (pD9EB7DA5.dip.t-dialin.net [217.235.125.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9ED9KhB096982; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:09:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from laps.jhs.private (laps.jhs.private [192.168.91.56]) by js.berklix.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9ED9IuX002450; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:09:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@flat.berklix.net) Received: from laps.jhs.private (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by laps.jhs.private (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9ED9Ije003788; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:09:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@laps.jhs.private) Message-Id: <200410141309.i9ED9Ije003788@laps.jhs.private> To: Jeremie Le Hen In-Reply-To: Message from Jeremie Le Hen <20041014123424.GJ16534@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:09:18 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:06:38 +0000 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 13:09:25 -0000 Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > 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. which format format: Command not found. apropos format | grep floppy fdformat(1) - format floppy disks fdwrite(1) - format and write floppy disks mformat(1) - add an MSDOS filesystem to a low-level formatted floppy disk '" t TQ \$1 . (is' (if` (pd" If someone wants to write one, it looks like there's room for some shell/ C prog, &/or man(1) that offered all of eg fdformat ufdformat mformat newfs scsi~format ls120 format etc. - Julian Stacey. Unix,C,Net & Sys. Eng. Consultant, Munich. http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii, Html dumped as Spam. Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.