Bug 67611

Summary: fdformat on usb floppy ?
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: eric gerbier <eric.gerbier>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description eric gerbier 2002-06-28 09:10:22 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I use a laptop, with an usb floppy (seen as /dev/sda)
I can read/write on this floppy
I can also create a file-system
but I can not make a low-level format with the fdformat comand :
> fdormat /dev/sda
/dev/sda: n'est pas un lecteur de disquette

>fdformat /dev/fd0
/dev/fd0: aucun peripherique ou adresse

I tried to make a link from sda to fd0, but it fails too :
>fdformat /dev/fd0
/dev/fd0: n'est pas un lecteur de disquette

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.fdformat /dev/fd0
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3.
	

Actual Results:  error message

Expected Results:  low-level format the floppy disk

Additional info:
Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2002-08-13 19:25:39 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63909 ***