Robert,
If you want to grab the program QXLFORMAT from my web site
(www.itimpi.freeserve.co.uk/djw/qxlformat.zip) then you will find that it
will do this job for you without the need to write a program yourself.
Despite its name it will run on any QL compatible that supports direct
sector access and convert an already formatted disk into a blank QL variant.
The name came from the fact that I originally developed it when I had an
early QXL before disk formatting was supported on the QXL.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Newson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 3:16 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Gold card disk formatting
> Can anyone help me with a small problem I have:
>
> I have a "Gold Card V2.49" (and "ICE v2.1 EIDERSOFT (C) 1985 D.
> Jones") with ED (3.2M) drives.
>
> Trying to format HD (1.44M) discs goes through the motions to end up
> with no change to the data on the actual disc - checking out the
> "formatted" disc in the other drive shows no data change; this has
> *never* worked (pretending they are DD (720K) by covering the HD hole
> and they format ok to 720K!). I haven't tried to re-format my ED (3.2M)
> discs.
>
> On using direct access to the HD discs (via:
>
> OPEN #ch,"flp1_d2d"
> PUT #ch\(sector + side*256 + track*65536),data$
>
> ) *will* change the data on the disc (so if anyone can give me the 1.44M
> disk format I could write my own proggy to convert doMeSDOS format to QL
> format).
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert
>
