That makes no sense to me. Do you mean soft formatting, or hard formatting?
Please elaborate. I would really like to know!
Thanks.
I was told the iPod's drives are formatted at a 512K blocks and the hard drives used in the Air are 4K blocks, which is why it doesn't work. I'm not 100% sure if its factual but it sounds real enough.
A quick google and you have your answer: http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=94968
To summarize: It won't work. The drive will be detected but it cannot be formatted by OS X, Windows, or Linux.