> >does anyone happen to have an fdformat program lying around? on a
> >quick perusal, the only source i was able to find for such a beast
> >was for the 68k port of linux...
> 
> You may be able to find one in the PR:
> 
>      646 gnats-ad port-i38 open      non-criti medium   net        there is no floppy diskette formatting utility on NetBSD/i386

Now that there is floppy support in the sparc port, is it worth
making sure the ioctl's used do not conflict with any that may
(already) be there - I have not looked at the code just yet.

Regards,
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