[Coco] drive motors

[Bill Pierce]

Robert,
I think he was assuming you were meaning the disk was already formatted before using DSKINI, but yes, DSKINI will format the disks fine. They will just be formatted as 35trk SSDD disks. Unless you have something like ADOS or ADOS3, or are using OS-9, RSDOS will format ALL drives as 35trk SSDD no matter what kind of drive it is.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Hermanek <rhermanek at centurytel.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sun, Jul 14, 2013 3:25 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] drive motors


Oh, that must be it then -- I've been assuming that a healthy DD disk 
would suffice, and that DSKINI could format it, after all it can with 
blank 5-1/4" media.  I don't have VCC set up, never got the hang of it.  
Is there a PC utility for accomplishing the format?  I was simply 
verifying my DD disks by using command:

FORMAT A: /T:80 /N:9

to specify a 720k format...

-RobertH

On 7/13/2013 9:36 PM, Robert Gault wrote:
>
> You will still need to format the disks. Depending on your Coco 
> system, you could have problems formatting the disks.
> You can, with VCC, format the disks, either OS-9 or Disk Basic, on a 
> PC for Coco use. Once that is done you can reformat as needed on a 
> Coco system.
>


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