On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 08:15:31PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Nov 19 2006 19:44, Willy Tarreau wrote: > >On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 07:25:34PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> > [~]>./scsifmt /dev/sdd fmt > >> > scsifmt: non-sense ioctl error > >> > > >> > Didn't work too well, too. Any ideas? > >> > >> > >> Does not mkfs suffice? > > > >No, he's talking about low-level format. This is necessary before writing > >anything on a floppy for the first time or after defects have been detected > >(remember these old ages ?). > > Yeah but the scsi *disk* driver does not seem to handle *floppy* > requests (just as it does not handle *cdrom* ioctls). I sense a Missing > Feature here.
I'm just wondering whether an SCSI floppy drive should support the hard disk command set (including low-level fmt). I'm not even sure that our sd driver supports those commands itself ! Clearly smelling -ENOFEATURE... Regards, Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
