Re: [hatari-devel] Floppy formatting support

[David Savinkoff <dsavnkff@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 7, 2019, at 10:42 AM, Miro Kropáček wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I apologise if this has been discussed before. How good is supposed to be
> Hatari's floppy formatting support? I wanted to test something (as I don't
> have a floppy drive in my Falcon anymore) and I'm getting errors everywhere
> I look. :) The simplest use case was TOS 4.04 + newly created DD image, it
> reports that the floppy disk may be write protected (isn't) or something
> else wrong with it.
>
> --
> http://mikro.atari.org

Write protect could be a host operating system permission,
or a hatari dialog selection, or a TOS permission.

To format a floppy; which creates a disk image that can be written to a

real floppy with mtools (or similar software).

http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/doc/manual.html#The_Floppy_Disks_Dialog
see: Create new blank image

When someone asks how to format a floppy with an emulator, my mind

goes straight to the real hardware, then I halt with a double bus fault.

Maybe the manual should have a few sentences on how to format a floppy

on an Atari ST versus an Emulator (for those that think pure Atari ST).