[Coco] Formatting HD floppies w/ modified controller.

[Boisy G. Pitre]

On Oct 6, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Paul T. Barton wrote:

> Well, I have been trying to format any
> 3.5 inch floppies as /D2 and as high-
> density (let's say 1.31mb). Using rb1773,
> etc. only let me get as far as 1 or two
> tracks (watching the LED's) and then quitting
> displaying "Unit Busy Error" or some such
> thing. I could read older HD floppies
> but not format a new one.
>
> I got an older hard-drive, off-loaded
> CC3Disk (the patched one for 512 byte
> sectors) matching device descriptors,
> /D0, /D1 and /D2 (this one is HD). Also,
> Clock, the older one (soft).

Paul,

We have been having issues with formatting floppies under  
NitrOS-9/6309 Level 2.  Some systems, like mine, exhibit no problems,  
while other systems crash or error out during the initial part of the  
format.

Could you do this?  Could you only exchange CC3Disk and leave the  
clock intact?  This would point definitively to rb1773 being the  
issue.  Please report your findings.

> Made another boot floppy using these
> different drivers/descriptors and
> VIOLA! I can now format HD floppies.
>
> Hmmm, is there a problem here?
> [Running v325 NitrOS-9
> [w/ CC3Disk and Clock]
>
> Paul - idezilla
> idezilla- at -gmail-.-com, too.
>
>
>
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