[Coco] Formatting DriveWire virtual disks and floppies.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/14/19 10:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 14 January 2019 06:48:38 Walter wrote:
> 
>> Gettlemen (& any ladies).
>> I have done it.
>> The secret to formatting a DW floppy/disk is in an undocumented option
>> to format. You can provide the number of tracks (of 18 sectors) with
>> the 'value option like so: Format /x1 '84
>> Will format a 1512 sector drive or 42tracks*2sides*18sectors.  But you
>> must provide DW a 387072 byte file to mount. I successfully backed up
>> my first 42track DS floppy to a DW virtual floppy! Walter
>>
> Format has other options too and I am at a loss as to why they should
> have disappeared from the dox.
> 

Format has a lot of flaws and warts.  It really needs a new version
written.  I don't suppose there is any documentation anywhere on the
functional method of formatting that could be used?

bill