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Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc

From Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc
Date 2019-03-20 21:10 +0100
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On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 5:43 PM David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun 17 Mar 2019 at 13:19:29 (+0100), Anders Andersson wrote:
> >   I got myself a USB 3.5" disk drive and want to format a 3.5" HD disk
> > so that it Just Works™ as a standard MS-DOS floppy.
>
> I'm not sure that you really can. What's your reasoning for
> doing this? Are you just spoiling for an unnecessary fight?
> Or do you really want to boot off it?

I want to use a floppy disk to transfer information between computers
and other devices which expects 3.5" HD diskette formatted for use
with DOS. Since it was the industry standard for "sneakernet" file
transfer for over a decade, I don't think it's a strange use case.
What did I miss?

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Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2019-03-17 13:30 +0100
  Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-03-17 13:50 +0100
    Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-03-17 17:40 +0100
    Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 20:50 +0100
  Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-17 17:50 +0100
    Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2019-03-20 21:10 +0100
      Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-03-20 21:20 +0100
      Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-03-21 03:20 +0100
        Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2019-03-21 04:10 +0100
  Re: Format an MS-DOS floppy on /dev/sdc Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-03-20 21:10 +0100

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