Formatting a USB floppy in FreeBSD [SOLVED]

From: Bruce M Simpson <bms_at_spc.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 05:00:31 -0700
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:28:34AM -0700, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> camcontrol cmd ${DEVNAME} \
> 	-c "04 17 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00" \
> 	-o 12 "00 A0 00 08 00 00 0B 40 00 00 02 00"

Bung a -t 140 in there so you don't get a complaint about mode auto-sense
when the format has not yet completed. 140 seconds to format a floppy
may be a bit excessive, but do bear in mind this doesn't verify the format
as it goes along.

A CAM-based program to format removable media (including UFI floppies)
track-by-track wouldn't have that problem, and would be able to verify,
give you progress indications, etc.

I hope the simple camcontrol example above serves to demonstrate the
problem is more or less cracked. I'm happy to live with a simple shell
script wrapper with the above for now, or even just an alias for csh:

 alias ufdformat 'camcontrol cmd \!* -t 140 -c "04 17 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00" -o 12 "00 A0 00 08 00 00 0B 40 00 00 02 00"'

Really going to sleep now.
BMS

Received on Wed Oct 06 2004 - 10:00:38 UTC

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