Bug 42002 - kfloppy does not work with ide floppy drives
Summary: kfloppy does not work with ide floppy drives
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kfloppy
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux Other
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernd Wuebben
URL:
Keywords:
: 76639 81334 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-05-02 10:18 UTC by stashelp
Modified: 2016-12-20 14:50 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description stashelp 2002-05-02 10:08:56 UTC
(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kfloppy
Version:           KDE 3.0.0 
Severity:          normal
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Not Specified
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

kfloppy gives the following message when I click the "Format" button:

"Cannot fromat: /dev/fd0H1440

/dev/fd0H1440: No such device or address"

I have an LS-120 Superdisk Drive (IDE Floppy Drive not via Floppy Control) which happens to be /dev/hdd instead.

Please fix kfloppy to support IDE floppy drives.

thanx



(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
Comment 1 nwourms 2002-10-18 14:08:40 UTC
It is the same story for ls-240 drives as well 
Comment 2 Sashmit Bhaduri 2004-03-03 20:19:22 UTC
confirmed with 3.2
Comment 3 Nicolas Goutte 2004-08-06 22:03:12 UTC
Does it work if you use the fdformat program by hand with the right device?
(KFloppy uses fdformat for low-level formatting.)

Normally it is called like:
fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
(Be careful, it erases everything on the floppy.)

So it would be good to check if it would work and whit which device.

Have a nice day!
Comment 4 Nicolas Goutte 2004-08-10 21:55:42 UTC
*** Bug 81334 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Nicolas Goutte 2004-08-10 21:57:49 UTC
*** Bug 76639 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 D. McABR 2004-09-02 08:58:46 UTC
When formating floppy from the KFLOPPY an error is recieved: (translating to english) Cannot access /dev/fd0H1440. Make sure that the device is avaiable and that you have rights to write.
When trying to use the console:
fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
/dev/fd0H1440: No such file or directory

KDE 3.2
Mandrake 10.1 beta2
No problems in formating this floppy under Windows 98 (I have 2 systems)

What can i do?
Comment 7 Nicolas Goutte 2004-09-02 16:00:09 UTC
What kind of floppy is this? (The problem of /dev/fd* is that is for real 
floppies only, so USB, IDE and so on does not work with such devices.)

So the best would be that somebody tries to use fdformat in a way that it 
works with such a floppy and then it can be added to KFloppy.

(If this is a real floppy, then see what devices of the kind /dev/fd0 you 
have. Choose one ending with 1440.)

Have a nice day!

On Thursday 02 September 2004 08:58, D.McABR wrote:
(...)
> When formating floppy from the KFLOPPY an error is recieved:
> (translating to english) Cannot access /dev/fd0H1440. Make sure that the
> device is avaiable and that you have rights to write. When trying to use
> the console:
> fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
> /dev/fd0H1440: No such file or directory
>
(...)
>
> What can i do?

Comment 8 Nicolas Goutte 2005-05-06 16:00:55 UTC
Has anybody tried to format such non-legacy drive (IDE, USB...) with mformat or superformat? (If it would work, it could be a path to a solution.)

Have a nice day!
Comment 9 Nicolas Goutte 2005-05-07 20:34:49 UTC
SVN commit 410381 by goutte:

Allow the user to enter a device name for a device that should be formatted:
- It only works for quick format
- It is far from being user friendly to have to type a device name.
- There is no check of what the device really is
  (as less as the high-level formatting programs like mkdosfs do check.)
- It is Linux only, as BSD seems to always need the block count of the device.

This opens ways to support non-legacy floppies as asked in bug #42002
(However it does not solve how to low-level format such floppies.)
CCBUG:42002
(Linux only)


 M  +82 -28    trunk/KDE/kdeutils/kfloppy/floppy.cpp  
 M  +27 -7     trunk/KDE/kdeutils/kfloppy/format.cpp  
 M  +10 -4     trunk/KDE/kdeutils/kfloppy/format.h  
Comment 10 George Goldberg 2007-12-18 04:52:57 UTC
Is this bug still present in a recent version of KDE, such as 3.5.8 or KDE 4 RC2?
Comment 11 George Goldberg 2008-02-15 03:54:57 UTC
Closing due to no response. Please reopen if this bug can be reproduced with KDE >= 4.0.1