[Coco] Getting /R0 to format quickly (was RE: ~something)

[Robert Gault]

Gene Heskett wrote:

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> Now thats a neat trick.  It could even be usefull for a floppy thats 
> intended to be used with backup, or would that trigger backups 
> "unequal  disks" check and exit?  If it worked, that would save some 
> time by just doing the physical format.  OTOH, ISTR the fat is not 
> written until the verify has been done, so such a disk would not be 
> usable except as a 'backup' target, which would overwrite the fat 
> anyway, with a known good one.
> 
> I'll have to waste a disk and find out. :)
> 

Just ran a test. Every attempt on my system to format a floppy as a hard 
drive where both physical and logical are requested but physical verify 
was not has hung up. However, if the disk was preformatted on a Coco and 
then formatted as a hard drive, logical only, no verify; it did work.

The resulting disk did not seem any different from a normal floppy, so 
Backup should work.