[Coco] Formatting DriveWire virtual disks and floppies.

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 14 January 2019 10:15:40 Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> On 1/14/19 10:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 14 January 2019 06:48:38 Walter wrote:
> >> Gettlemen (& any ladies).
> >> I have done it.
> >> The secret to formatting a DW floppy/disk is in an undocumented
> >> option to format. You can provide the number of tracks (of 18
> >> sectors) with the 'value option like so: Format /x1 '84
> >> Will format a 1512 sector drive or 42tracks*2sides*18sectors.  But
> >> you must provide DW a 387072 byte file to mount. I successfully
> >> backed up my first 42track DS floppy to a DW virtual floppy! Walter
> >
> > Format has other options too and I am at a loss as to why they
> > should have disappeared from the dox.
>
> Format has a lot of flaws and warts.

+100 at least.

> It really needs a new version 
> written.  I don't suppose there is any documentation anywhere on the
> functional method of formatting that could be used?

Your next big project perhaps?

> bill


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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