> 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
