Re: [PARPORT] LS-120

From: grant@torque.net
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 12:15:38 EST

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    > I *think* your information is outdated. I know the drives have no problems
    > formatting 1MB(720KB), 2MB(1.44MB) and 120MB(raw is something like 125MB I
    > think) media. I know I've used mkfs.msdos on 120MB media

    Whoa ... mkfs is not what we are talking about here. Making file
    systems has nothing to do with the hardware.

    I said

    > LS120 drives were not physically capable of formatting media.

    we were talking about the low-level sector formatting of the disks,
    not the on-disk data structures.

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