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Subject: Re: floppy disk controller broken
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You could try formatting the floppy in a USB drive.

Someone was going to pick this up, finish it off, and commit it, but I 
haven't heard back from them: 
http://people.freebsd.org/~bms/dump/tools/ufdformat/