Re: [SLUG] Formating a USB Floppy

[Antony Stace <antony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

doesn't want to work....


[root@hawera /root]# mkfs.msdos /dev/sda
mkfs.msdos 2.2 (06 Jul 1999)
mkfs.msdos: Will not try to make filesystem on '/dev/sda'
[root@hawera /root]#


John Clarke wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:43:37AM +0900, Antony Stace wrote:
> 
> > Can someone please tell me how to format a disk in MSDOS format with a
> > USB floppy drive.  I am running Kondara MNU/Linux 2000 which has Kernel
> > 2.2.17-10k.
> > My computer recoginses the USB floppy as /dev/sda.  I cannot use the
> 
> mkdosfs /dev/sda
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
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