Re: How do I format a 1.44Mb floppy disk in a laser servo drive?

Mark Hobley wrote:

How do I format a 1.44Mb floppy disk in a laser servo drive?

My laser servo drive is /dev/hdd. How can I format a 1.44Mb floppy disk in
DOS format?

The fdformat utility does not appear to work with a floppy disk:

fdformat /dev/hdd
Could not determine current format type: Invalid argument

Please advise.

dd a empty formatted floppy to a file and dd it back to the floppy you want
to format? Or use mkfs.msdos instead of fdformat?

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