Date   : Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:41:40 -0700 (PDT)
From   : flynnjs@... (Jason Flynn G7OCD)
Subject: Writing BBC Disc Images on Linux

me@... <me@...> wrote:
> Michael Firth wrote:
> 
> > Surely that will only work if the target floppy is
> > already formatted to match the image you want to
> > write to the disk?
> 
> No, it's doing a raw write to the floppy device. In
> fact it will destroy any formatting already on the
> disc and replace it with however the disk image is
> formatted.

You're sort of both correct. dd will work but you also
need to tell Linux that the floppy is not to be written
in the regular PC layout.

Use setfdprm before using dd