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Partitioning a SD card for MS-DOS 6.22
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MS-DOS 6.22 has a partition size limit of 500MB. This command will (On MacOS) create a FAT16 partition that is 500MB and mark the rest as free space.

diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk5 2 MBRFormat "MS-DOS FAT16" SD1 500M FREE Untitled R

/dev/disk5 is the volume you want to partition 2 is the number of partitions MBRFormat is to make the FAT MBR style "MS-DOS FAT16" the type of filesystem SD1 is the name of the volume 500M is the size of volume in MB FREE is to mark the next partition as free space Untitled is the name R means the rest of the drive

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