Formatting a USB Floppy on Sony Vaio Z505JE.

Hi,

I've just installed Debian Woody, kernel-source-2.4.18, on a PCG-Z505JE
and am slowly getting everything working.

I've just got USB floppy read access using /dev/sda going.  How do I
format a floppy?  fdformat uses floppy-drive only ioctls.  Same with
setfdparam.  I don't mean write the filesystem data to it, but perform a
`write track' in FDC 1772 terms.

Google shows quite a few people ask this question, but didn't give any
answers, including at returntonature.com.  I can't believe it's `use a
machine with a non-USB drive' since they'll be rare one day.

Cheers,


Ralph.