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You could zero it out using dd. I zero'd a floppy as follows:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 2>/home/bgriffis/zerofloppy

(you don't need the 2>/home/bgriffis/zerofloppy = that just tells you how many 
records in/out). You could probably retrieve the data with a good bit of 
effort, but that should do the trick for most instances.


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