2009/10/9 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>:
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 07:56:49 +0100, Mick wrote:
>
>> Some USB sticks are formatted as floppy disks (?) and show up
>> as /dev/sda (instead of /dev/sda1).  I have had no problems mounting
>> these in Linux or MSWindows, but wouldn't know how to format them in
>> Linux.
>
> mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdX

Aha!  The 'superfloppy' format!  I didn't know this.

Thanks.  :-)
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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