Re: ZoomFloppy - formatting a disk in a 2031 disk drive

From: Steve Gray <*sjgray_at_rogers.com*> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 18:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1190224360.1887278.1488997786203@mail.yahoo.com> · sjgray_at_rogers.com

Type:
cbmctrl command 8 "N0:DISKNAME,ID"
Where DISKNAME is the name to appear at the top of the listing, and ID is a two-character string. Commands must be in uppercase.
Steve

      From: Ville Laustela <ville.laustela@gmail.com>
 To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de 
 Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 12:41 PM
 Subject: ZoomFloppy - formatting a disk in a 2031 disk drive

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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