[Coco] Hard drive formating

[Bill Pierce]

Brian, some of it is in the OS9 manuals, but some things have been added since then. Format actually has a built in "usage" feature, but in the current NOS9 repo, that's been commented out (??). Sometime in the near future, I will be submitting a patch to fix that as well as update the "Help" messages on the repo disks.
For now, here is the usage message from the source code:

Use: FORMAT /devname <opts>
..opts: R   - Ready
........S/D - density; single or double
........L   - Logical format only"
........"disk name"
........1/2 - number of sides"
........'No. of cylinders'   (in decimal)
........:Interleave value:   (in decimal)
......../Cluster size/       (in decimal)
........FD - Dragon format disk

Notice the different dividers for each type (" ", / /", ' ', : :, etc). Thos with no dividers use the single letter for the parameter (except dragon which uses FD).
As a default (no cmd line parameters), format will use the values in the descriptor of the drive being formatted.


 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Goers <briang0671 at sbcglobal.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Jan 30, 2017 3:28 pm
Subject: [Coco] Hard drive formating

Is there a document that explains the terms used to format a hard drive?I may have known at one time terms like cluster, and offset but I am not certain of now.--   Brian Goers  Club Librarian         http://glensideccc.com  Fest information here.         The 26th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFEST!            April 22 & 23, 2017           Fairfield Inn & Suites Lombard        Saturday 9 am to Midnight           645 West North Avenue                   Sunday 9 am to 3 pm           Lombard, IL 60148            1-630-629-1500-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco