Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc
On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> wrote:
> I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
> Normally I would have used mformat from the mtools package, but it
> appears that I can not supply a device name, just "emulated names"
> like A: which are then translated to /dev/fd0 etc.
It seems you're supposed to use '/etc/mtools.conf' for this kind of
thing.
drive m: file="/dev/sdc"
Then:
mformat m:
This from a very cursory examination of the problem on the internets.
> The problem is that my disk drive shows up as a SCSI device on
> /dev/sdc and I can not find a way to tell mformat to use it, so it
> seems that I have to use the traditional mkfs.fat to format my disk.
> However, there are dozens of parameters such as number of FATs, FAT
> size, "media type", and I don't know anything about that! Can someone
> figure out what type of magic I need to supply to mkfs.fat for it to
> do exactly what mformat would to do a floppy, or alternatively, how to
> make mformat work with /dev/sdc?
>
>
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