You may want to track down a copy of Silverlining. It's a better formatting program and works on all drives, Apple-branded or not.

Fourteen years ago, I remember formatting a drive with Silverlining. It was an 80MB in a Mac SE/30 and, by all means, should have been dead. Miraculously, it came through after several hours of formatting. That drive didn't last much longer due to mechanical problems and a lot of space was lost due to bad blocks, but it was enough to make it through the following spring, when I had the SE/30's internal speakers playing some pretty hefty sound files, more or less as a proof of concept.