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macOS Format Disk as FAT-16
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Use Disk Utility.app to identify the drive number for the desired disk device. Then:

$ diskutil unmountDisk disk<n>
$ sudo newfs_msdos -F 16 /dev/disk<n>
$ diskutil mount /dev/disk<n>
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