On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:40:04PM -0600, pohl wrote: > > 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. low level formatting is not just creating a filesystem or zeroing out the blocks, there is actually some low level something done to the disk itself. its usually not necessary as floppies are almost always preformatted. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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