[Coco] Formatting DriveWire virtual disks and floppies.
Walter
zambotti at iinet.net.au
Mon Jan 14 06:21:06 EST 2019
Ok so I tried to format a blank 360K floppy on /x1 using Nitros9
If I give all the options like so:
Format /x1 2 "Test" `40`
It complains the device is not supported.
If I just do:
Format /x1
It displays some info that the disk is 18432 sectors long is a hard drive
and do I really want to proceed.
In fact it doesn't matter what size blank virtual floppy I mount in
DriveWire (165k, 320K, 360K) it always reports this number of sectors.
If I proceed it succeeds. Not sure how when the floppy only has 1440
sectors.
I can then perform a free and it succeeds.
The Nitros-9 manual indicates the format commands has no options!
Any ideas how I might format a 1512 sector (42 track ds) DW floppy?
Walter
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