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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 2004 14:14:44 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/fdformat fdformat.c src/usr.sbin/fdread fdutil.c
Message-ID:  <200409191414.52930.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <xzphdpvjkkl.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <200409181740.i8IHeq5V040496@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040918175743.GI6019@empiric.icir.org> <xzphdpvjkkl.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 07:39, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> writes:
> > Has anyone else noticed that we can't fdformat(8) USB floppy drives?
>
> Hasn't everyone switched to USB memory sticks yet?

Curious you should mention this.

Lots of USB memory sticks have stuff to make them look like a floppy (they=
=20
have 2 partitions, one is 1.44Mb, the other is xxx Mb).

It would be really nice (from a user POV) to be able to differentiate betwe=
en=20
floppy drive like devices and scsi disks..

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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