Format USB Jump Drive as Fat32

I want to format a USB jump drive in Fat32 so that I can use it with a Archos 700 (a video recorder/player)
I used Disk Utility to format the USB Jump Drive as MS-Dos File System but my Archos could not "see" the Jump Drive. I also noticed that the Jump Drive showed up as Fat16 via "get info" on my iMac.
Any suggestions...?

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I used Disk Utility to format the USB Jump Drive as MS-Dos File System but my Archos could not "see" the Jump Drive. I also noticed that the Jump Drive showed up as Fat16 via "get info" on my iMac.
I'm guessing that DiskUtility automatically selects FAT16 or FAT32 depending on the
capacity of the drive. I've formatted large (320GB) HDDs as "MS-DOS File System" --
and they come out FAT32.
The only thing I can suggest is using a Windoze machine -- or BootCamp/VMware.
...I hate "friendly" software,
Looby

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