9 May
2009
9 May
'09
11:49 p.m.
On 9 May 2009 at 11:35, Steven Hirsch wrote:
How?? I have pored over the docs and cannot find a
mention of hybrid
formats. (I'm a legal owner of 22Disk, BTW - purchased in 1994 from
Sydex).
Simple, actually. Do a double format. Use the normal 16/8 820
definition to lay down your 26x256 MFM format, then create an extra 1
track (CYLINDERS 1) definition for the FM part. Instructions for
creating format definitions are in the docs--the CP/M BSH, BLM, etc.
doesn't matter during format. Use "SIDES 1" to make sure that you're
doing only a single track and not both sides. If you want to write
an FM boot track, create a file with the data to be written with a
.LBL extension and add the name of the file to the second definition
with a "LABEL filename" clause. Use "OFS 1" to keep it on that
track.
Run the normal format first, then the 1-track format afterwards. If
you invoke CFMT from a batch file, you can include both formats in
the batch file to run consecutively.
--Chuck