David E. Fox wrote:

I have done this with a winblows program and still have some disks like this, up to 1.72mb which was very handy at times. I don't know how to achieve this


Use a special device for that format you want. I'd suggest first trying


# fdformat /dev/fd0h1660

see what happens. Back in the old days and I think that's still true, you'd use the special form of /dev/fd0 (for instance /dev/fd0h1440) when
formatting only.


As I recall, uppercase "H" was for 5.25" and lowercase 'h' for 3.5".

I don't know offhand what the 'u' is. Maybe 'unformatted' but that
doesn't make sense.

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And have a look at:  mtools, fdutils all provided on the ML disks.
ftp://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/fdutils/Fdutils.html

Larry

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