On 14/06/2010 16:11, gdgqler wrote:
On 14 Jun 2010, at 16:00, Rich Mellor wrote:
Does anyone else have as much trouble as me trying to format floppy disk
drives....
I have a Windows 7 (64 bit) PC with a USB floppy disk drive.
Unfortunately, although QPC2 and Q-emuLator can normally read a DD disk, it is
a real pain to find one they can format.
QPC2 normally accesses the disk once, then waits about 20 seconds, then
accesses it further and reports format failed.
Q-emuLator looks at the drive, then says - the media is not recognised - it may
not be formatted. However any attempt to format the disk just fails to do
anything
Sometimes it works though...
Infuriating!
I have just successfully formatted a totally new DD floppy disk using QPC2 on
Windows Xp. This took a minute. The instruction I gave was:
format 'flp1_Dab*D'
George
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Oddly enough many years ago, I wrote a small utility which allowed you
to set the floppy format to use
On SMSQ/e for Super Gold Card, if you did FORMAT 'flp1_test*H' on a High
Density disk, or FORMAT 'flp1_test*E' on a Extra Density disk, that
worked fine.
But if you tried FORMAT 'flp1_test*D' on a Double Density disk after
using one of the above commands, the format always failed!
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