https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336327 Summary: Formatting external USB Floppy disks Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: x86 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: pley@alc.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Customer Formatting a disk in an external fdd does not work with fdformat, thus kfloppy is useless: #> fdformat /dev/sdb Could not determine current format type: Invalid argument Then I tried it with a better dev-name: martin:/dev # mknod fd0H1440 b 8 16 martin:/dev # fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 Could not determine current format type: Invalid argument mformat works, but kfloppy first tries to use fdformat. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.