On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 00:36 -0300, Fernando Lozano wrote: > Hi, > > I do have a Sony USB FDD controller. It shows up as /dev/sda (as most > USB storage devices). The problem is, how to format it (tracks, not > filesystem)? fdformat refuses to work with the /dev/sda device. Had exactly the same problem, it wouldn't use dos fat, vfat only ext2 would work for me. -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================