Re: formatting a disk in a USB floppy drive

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:52:55 -0400
Lorenzo Prince <lorenzo prince homelinux org> wrote:

> Hi.  I just bought a USB floppy drive to go in my laptop.  It mounts
> the disks I put into it with no trouble and reads very fast.  The
> problem is that the drive is using /dev/sda.  Neither fdformat or
> floppy like that.  What can I do to format a floppy disk in this
> drive? Thanks.

Have you tried "mkfs" to see if it handles it?

man mkfs

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