Re: [hatari-devel] Floppy formatting support

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 5/7/19 10:08 PM, Roger Burrows wrote:
> On 7 May 2019 at 19:42, Miro Kropácek wrote:
> > 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.
> IIRC, it's non-existent.  I'm pretty sure that I had to test on real hardware
> when I added desktop floppy formatting to EmuTOS.  If you have something that
> needs a real floppy, I can test it for you.

The normal .ST, .MSA etc floppy formats don't include the information
necessary for low level formatting.

But I though that STX or IPF formats had support needed for formatting.
They may need separate file for writes.  I didn't notice any mention
of that in Manual.

Nicolas?


	- Eero