Chuck once told us that DRIVPARM can be coerced into working on some of
the systemes that it won't work on, by inserting some Ctrl-A characters;
DRIVPARM ^A^A^A /D:2 /F:2
BTW, FORMAT, DRIVER.SYS uses the tracks and sectors that you specify
FORMAT E: /T:80 /N:9
ONLY to select WHICH ONE from the internal list. It WILL NOT let you
change a format, such as
FORMAT E: /T:77 /N:8 unless it already has that format somewhere
in the internal list.
https://retrocmp.de/fdd/8inch/drivparm.htm
https://retrocmp.de/ms-kb/Q35766%20Supported%20Values%20for%20FORMAT%20:N%2…
/F:3 was once 8" SD
/F:4 was once 8: DD
Any machines, other than SCP that still support those?