Can I format a disk in an external floppy drive

[elmo]

Graham Watkins wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When I got my new computer, it did not have a built-in floppy drive so I 
> bought an external usb model.  Obviously floppy disks don't have much of 
> a future so all I wanted to do was lift any valuable data off them, burn 
> it to a CD and re-format the disks so that they could be given/thrown 
> away.  However, kfloppy does not recognise the drive so I can't do it 
> that way.   fdisk doesn't see it either.    Does anybody know what, if 
> anything I should do to re-format the disks?
>
>   
I use an external floppy..In Windows, it is B:\

I use it the same way as an A:\ drive, formatting, etc.  I haven't tried 
it in any Linux.

elmo