On 2019-03-17, Anders Andersson <pipat...@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? > > -- “Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched--love for instance-- we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.” - Virginia Woolf, The Waves
