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From: Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: FORMAT floppy: Drive_IO error
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:38:51 +0200
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Bart Oldeman wrote:

> DOSEMU [..] cannot and has never been able to format floppies,
> to be precise, BIOS int13/ah=5 is not implemented.
> 
> Try a Linux tool, e.g. superformat.

This clears up a lot.

I suppose a user could replace format.com by format.bat,
containing "unix superformat /dev/fd0 hd" ?

Regards, Jan