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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:09:35 -0700
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Formatting a USB floppy in FreeBSD [SOLVED]
Message-ID:  <20041014180935.GA665@empiric.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041014152137.GL278@numachi.com>
References:  <20041006092156.GA690@empiric.icir.org> <20041006112834.GC1794@empiric.icir.org> <20041006120031.GD1794@empiric.icir.org> <416E9271.6050700@portaone.com> <20041014152137.GL278@numachi.com>

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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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