Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:09:18 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net> To: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ufdformat(1) -- format disks in USB floppy drives. Message-ID: <200410141309.i9ED9Ije003788@laps.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: Message from Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> <20041014123424.GJ16534@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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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.
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