Newfs_msdos not producing a good format?

I need to format a 16 gig compact flash card with the ability to control the block size in order to work with a certain camera. Unfortunately the Disk Utility is completely useless as it produces a format that is unreadable for the device it's going into (Canon 5D and Canon 1DMkII cameras). Before we get into the "just format in camera" suggestions, that's impossible to do with the 5D. Although the 5D will support a card formatted to 16 gigs in 1 series cameras, it can not format a card to 16 gigs on its own. If you have a 1 series camera you can simply format it in and plop it into the 5D, no problem. Fortunately I have both but not everyone does and I have a few folks who'd like to use 16 gig cards with their 5Ds.
I've tried a straight format using the Disk Utility and as I've mentioned, it produces a useless format (the camera recognizes the disk as being full). If I format a card already formatted to 16 gigs in a PC, it works fine so I'm guessing that Apple or the BSD folks aren't following the standard to the tee (or.... maybe they are following the spec to the T instead of reverse engineering what Microsoft does, and not doing what it says... I don't know... the PC works, the Mac doesn't).
I figured I might have more luck with the command line. Here's what I've come up with so far...
sudo su (if you don't use sudo su the following commands throw a "resource busy" error or something along those lines)
umount /dev/disk1s1 (in my particular case that's where the card is)
newfs_msdos -F 32 -b 8192 -v some_name /dev/disk1s1
So, it formats the drive. During the formatting the bsec differs the bsec of the Canon formatted disk but when I check it after the format, things match up. I'm not sure what that's all about. At this point I can't figure out how to release the drive from the system. The eject button doesn't work and if I pull the card out, OSX complains, so that's another part of the mystery as well.
I'm guessing I need to provide more information on how the Canon is performing the format (or blasting an image to the card) however I'm not exactly sure what that information is or how to extract it. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it. The final goal is for someone without a 1 series camera or a PC be able to format a 16 gig card and use it in a Canon 5D. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Joe

Hi Nils,
I did try the -N to see what Canon was doing with the format (they're using a block size of 8192 bytes) so I could then plug those parameters in when doing the format with newfs_msdos. After I do the format via the command line and then do the -N again to double check things, the numbers are all identical so there's got to be something else going on there. Interestingly enough DURING the format process the bsec is different (but afterwards it checks out OK, I'm not sure what's going on there). I have also tried this with the PC and when setting the block size to 8192 it produces the same results as a Canon formatted card.
I'll give the dd route a try. I don't believe that Canon is actually formatting the card, I'm pretty sure they're just blasting an image.
Thanks!
Cheers, Joe

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