How to format a disk in an USB-Floppy-drive

Dear all,

How do I actually low-level format a floppy disk in anUSB-Floppy-Disk-Drive?


I tried as with usual drives, using fdformat:

[~]>fdformat /dev/sdd
Could not determine current format type: Invalid argument

But setting the format failed as well:
[~]>setfdprm -p /dev/sdd 1440/1440
ioctl: Invalid argument

Next up scsifmt:

[~]>./scsifmt /dev/sdd fmt
scsifmt: non-sense ioctl error

Didn't work too well, too. Any ideas?

Best regards,
Christian
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