Re: floppy low-level format

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> If you mean you want to erase every last cluster on the disk, then you can 
> use the following command to do that, no matter what type of drive it is:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 count=<how far you want to go......omit to 
> clear whole disk>

This would be erasing a disk, not formatting it. fdformat handles the
formatting (writing the block index marks or whatever else is necessary
for the floppy controller to tell one block from the next). There's a
special ioctl for floppies to make the kernel driver start the
track formatting procedure. 

You've never really worked with floppy-only computers, do you?

	Michael