It's funny -- I didn't see the original reply from Bill to this message. I am aware of the track differences and I thought Dos would format it but just slam the head for the last three tracks. No such luck. It actually complains about the disk from the beginning.
The Qume 242 is a DSDD drive in case that was asked in the original thread, and should work in this situation. I tried to format a disk with both IMD and NFORMAT (utility I downloaded) and neither products a disk format that DOS likes. I'm sure it's my selection of parameters more so than the program itself. Rich Sent from Verizon/AOL Mobile Mail On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: On 08/09/2017 01:41 AM, william degnan wrote: > How about booting into dos and just formatting a disk that way? Go back and read what I wrote, Bill. If single-sided media is being used, DOS formatting will fail as there is no single-sided high-density format available. Of course, if double-sided media is used, DOS formatting as a 1.2MB DOS disk should work--up to track 76. Note that 8" drives are 77 track/cylinder, not 80, as the 5.25" drives are. IMD can handle the issues quite readily, as its formatting facility will do whatever you tell it to do. --Chuck
