Formatting a USB floppy in FreeBSD [SOLVED]

Bruce M Simpson bms at spc.org
Thu Oct 14 11:09:49 PDT 2004


Hello,

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:21:37AM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
> I generally avoid the problem by maintaining, on my hard drive, an
> image of a formatted floppy, and using 'dd' to write it to whatever
> destination....

'dd' does not perform low level format of USB floppy devices, so
you are talking about a completely different problem.

BMS


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