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Bug#332932: marked as done (fdutils: superformat does not work on usb floppies)



Your message dated Mon, 10 May 2010 00:12:37 +0200
with message-id <201005100012.38375.mcy@lm7.fr>
and subject line Re: Bug#332932: fdutils: superformat does not work on usb floppies
has caused the Debian Bug report #332932,
regarding fdutils: superformat does not work on usb floppies
to be marked as done.

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Package: fdutils
Version: 5.5-20050303-2
Severity: normal


I am trying to move to usb floppies in my environment.  Unfortunately,
superformat cannot grok usb floppy drives

$ sudo superformat /dev/sdg
Not a floppy drive

Which is probably broken as designed.
I am primarily looking to have something that does allow low level formatting
of floppies to be documented.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages fdutils depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.58     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.14.3     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

Versions of packages fdutils recommends:
ii  mtools                        3.9.9-2.1  Tools for manipulating MSDOS files

-- debconf information:
  fdutils/fdmount_setuid: false


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Hi,

This is not a bug. You can read the following at the end of the package 
description: « Note that these utilities do not work for USB floppy drives, 
because these do not allow direct access to the floppy controller. »

Please have a look at the package ufiformat instead.

  Matteo

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