Hot to format a floppy using a usb drive

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 00:36 -0300, Fernando Lozano wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I do have a Sony USB FDD controller. It shows up as /dev/sda (as most
> USB storage devices). The problem is, how to format it (tracks, not
> filesystem)? fdformat refuses to work with the /dev/sda device.

Had exactly the same problem, it wouldn't use dos fat, vfat only ext2
would work for me. 
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