I know this is a little old but maybe I can help. I found this file earlier(attached). I havent had a chance to try it yet and I assume its for a windows computer. Its a small no frills command line utility to format a usb as a floppy. I have no idea if it works lol.
I use linux so I have the tools I need to create what I need on my computer. If you use linux or a macbook its very easy. Plug your usb in then open up a terminal. Find out what the computer is calling the usb drive by typing-
Heres what I get when I do lsblk with a 4 gig flash drive instertedCode:lsblk
Usually the first usb drive will be called /dev/sdb but it could be different. Next just copy and paste the following (make sure to change /dev/sdb to whatever it is on your machine) Also commands are case sensitive. No caps!Code:sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk ??sda1 8:1 0 260M 0 part /boot/efi ??sda2 8:2 0 451.8G 0 part / ??sda5 8:5 0 13.7G 0 part /home/buddha/Downloads sdb 8:16 1 3.7G 0 disk /media/buddha/DBA4-3A1A
Thats it. In case it interests you or anyone else whats happening there is summarized as follows: First, sudo runs the program umount as admin/root to unmount the device sdb from any filesystem it may be connected to (notice the command is umount, not unmount). Next The mkfs command creates a file which is really just a tiny filesystem with a size of 1440 bytes(the size of a floppy) and those bytes are arranged as a FAT filesystem. Next sudo runs the program dd as administrator to take the image file "blank-floppy.img" and kind-of super imposes it over the file or device specified at "of=/dev/sdb". It does this with 2880 blocks of 512 bytes just like a floppy. The difference doing it this way is the drive will actually only have a 1.44 mb capacity after you do this. Even if its a 2 terabyte drive. It will be a 1.44MB disk as far as your haas is concerned. It will stay that way until you repartition the drive or let windows even scan it.Code:sudo umount /dev/sdb ; mkfs.fat -C "blank-floppy.img" 1440; sudo dd bs=512 count=2880 if=blank-floppy.img of=/dev/sdb;
Its not at first intuitive or logical the way filesystem images work and this leads to major frustration when you have to deal with a floppy emulator because its not readily apparent why simply formatting the flash drive as a FAT filesystem wont work. But it wont. It has to either have the capacity of a single floppy or present multiple floppy images to the gotek emulator from which it can choose.
Im not a hardened expert on these emulators but this is what I do and it works for us. Beware of windows trying to scan and fix the usb drive every time you put it in. Dont ever allow it to even scan it or youll have to redo the above. It will "fix" the partition table to reflect the true capacity - which destroys the delicate veil of bull**** which we have so delicately erected.
I hope this helps somebody out there!