From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [fr] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-34 i686) 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 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.fdformat /dev/fd0 2. 3. Actual Results: error message Expected Results: low-level format the floppy disk Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63909 ***