Re: ls-120 drives
It IS possible to format a 1.44m floppy in an LS120. The compaq
machine I have at work does this all the time .... under windows NT.
What is needed is a program to do this under linux!
---"David B. Teague" <dbt@elentari.cs.wcu.edu> wrote:
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> On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
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> > On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> > <Stuff deleted>
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> > But dos and windows can low
> > level format 1.44m floppies IN AN LS120. If I could get linux to do
> > that I could 86 my floppy drive an use it's interrupt for something
> > else.
>
> Kenneth
>
> If you find out how to do format a dos floppy in an LS 120 drives,
that
> would settle my impending purchase on an LS 120 for the new machine
in my
> life.
>
> It seems to me that formatting a floppy should be do-able by any drive
> that can write to the floppy disk. Or does the floppy drive do
something
> that the LS 120 cannot? (and that I don't know about? ;)
>
>
> --David
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