Till Harbaum a �crit :

> I doubt that this is possibe. If you want to low-level-format a usb floppy
> disk, you have to send a usb format command to the usb floppy drive. All
> formatting is then done by the floppy, just like e.g. a scsi harddisk (which
> work really similar to a usb floppy). You IMHO don't have any control about
> the process of formatting the disk at all. And currently the linux driver
> doesn't even support formatting at all, since the usb layer does not
> implement the necessary ioctls. This has been discussed some weeks ago on
> this list in detail.

thanks for this quick answer !
do you remember the name of the thread, so I can read it ?

-- 
Eric Gerbier


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