[Coco] Format problem in NitrOS9 V030206

[Steve Ostrom]

Bob, if you haven't done so, please run a cleaning disk in the drives, 
then try the formatting again.  A dirty set of heads will react exactly 
this way.

-- Steve --



Bob Devries wrote:

> I have just this weekend changed over to NitrOS9 V 030206, but I' 
> having problems formatting disks.
>
> The formatter does the physical disk format, and then baulks at the 
> verify pass, and issues a "format aborted BAD SYSTEM SECTOR" on every 
> disk I try, and on both drives.
>
> Besides that, I'm regularly getting ERROR 251 when I try to read a 
> directory or chd to a different disk. Error 251 is Disk ID Change.
> I don't think I should *ever* get that except in the middle of running 
> a disk related programme, right?
>
> It seems the formatter problems have not gone away yet.
>
> Looking at the disk with ded after the failed format, it seems that 
> the formatter fouls up the first two sectors of *every* track! I can 
> tell ded to skip to sector 2 (the third sector), and it will read that 
> no problem, but then fails at the $12 (first sector on side two of the 
> first track). The error given by ded is 251! Why? it *should* be 247, 
> or similar.
>
> I'd love to have some communication with the NitrOS9 development team 
> about this, to see if we can find a workaround for it.
>
> -- 
> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
> the capacity to be his spokesman,
> so that I know how to help the weary.
>
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>