Re: floppy low-level format

[pohl <pohl@screaming.org>]

Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:13:25PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote:
> > I haven't figure out yet how to do a low-level format on 
> > /dev/fd0 on PPCs, can anybody help me?
>
> i don't think you can... the tool used for this is superformat 
> which function on ppc it does not.   

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what "low-level format" implies, but
you should be able to use mkfs like this:

   mkfs -t ext2 -c -v /dev/fd0

I don't have a ppc machine with a floppy though, so I can't
test it.

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