ZoomFloppy - formatting a disk in a 2031 disk drive

From: Ville Laustela <*ville.laustela_at_gmail.com*> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 19:41:37 +0200 Message-Id: <B2395D4B-4BC0-4A56-9447-C5E5390BC29A@gmail.com> · ville.laustela_at_gmail.com

Hi.

Is there a way to format a disk in a Commodore 2031 disk drive over ZoomFloppy? It responds to cbmctrl reset and gives "73,cbm dos v2.6 2031,00,00” after reset - so I’d say so far it's looking good. I have a blank disk that I’d like to try formatting to see if it passes. My CBM8032 is not at hand at the moment so I can’t try it there, and I couldn’t figure out if I can pass the header command over ZoomFloppy to the drive.

I just got the drive, bought from eBay as non-working - happily it’s working! Has some cosmetic issues but nothing drastic - lovely disk drive.

Cheers,
Ville L.

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