[Coco] Re: Re: Re: Re: Disk Basic and 512 byte block floppies.

[Amardeep S Chana]

<KnudsenMJ at aol.com> wrote in message
news:6c.36b302f3.2d404a59 at aol.com...
> In a message dated 1/21/04 12:31:11 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> vxlzneo02 at sneakemail.com writes:
>
> > > Bad move.  I need 720K PC format disks to move data to/from my MM/1.
Yet
> >  > another reason to stick with Win98 and Linux.  --Mike K.
> >
> >  Can't you just format them on the MM/1?
>
> Possibly, but formatting anything on the MM/1 is iffy.  The OS9/68K PC
format
> disk driver has a lot of "design shortcuts", which is a nicer term than
> "bugs."  I'm not sure if the OSK Format command will even do /PC0.  Well,
it would
> probably give it a good try.
>
> Mine can no longer write HD (1.44M) floppies at all.  And 720K OS9 format
> floppies are flaky on both my Coco and the MM/1 (each disk has a few files
> renamed BLOCK3.BAD, etc.).  --Mike K.

Yeah, that doesn't sound too reliable.  FORTUNATELY... John Malmberg figured
out that the older format parameters still work under XP.  That is, FORMAT
A: /N:9 /T:80 will do it but the more modern FORMAT A: /F:720 is not
recognized.

Amardeep