[Coco] Hard drive Format problem and the fix

[Mark Marlette]

At 11:51 AM 7/18/2004 -0400, you wrote:

Dave,

Depends if you are doing verifies or not. Even with no verifies it will 
take along time!!!!

I would recommend that you keep your sector size =1. There are some old 
utilities out there that don't look at the cluster size and ASSUME a size 
of one! Write to a non cluster of one drive and POOF, there goes your drive 
integrity. :(

A 120MB partition is HUGE for NitrOS-9. I have a ton of source on my main 
machine and haven't went over the 50MB mark. Almost over 20years of CoCo 
data on that drive......

I have crashed my drive, usually happens at the worst time too. The B&B 
utilities are all that way.

Regards,

Mark
Cloud-9

>Boisy Asked me to post this. I kept getting a error 208 when I tried
>to format /h0 & /h1.the fix is:
>
>debug
>L RBF
>. .+795  (that is period space period+795)
>=21
>Q
>
>Then format /h0 gave another error.  Sorry I forgot that one.
>
>This was fixed with this command
>
>Format /h0 /8
>
>At least that worked on my 1.06 G SCSI drive.
>
>Any guesses as to how long it will take to format a full Gig +?
>
>Regards,
>
>Dave
>
>
>Dave
>
>
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