The floppy utility's original purpose is to provide userland support for
formatting floppies in IDE floppy drives.  Its scope has been expanded
to also format floppies in standard floppy controller drives.  The
interface is intended to be transparent enough that the user does not
have to be concerned whether the floppy drives is a standard floppy
controller drive, or an IDE floppy drive.  The same command:

floppy --format A:

will format the floppy.  End of story.
