On Feb 8, 8:29 pm, Eric Rucker  wrote:
> On Feb 8, 8:56 am, schmidtd  wrote:
>
> > On Feb 7, 7:04 pm, Eric Rucker 
wrote:> I noticed on my (ROM 3) IIGS that I couldn't format a 3.5"
disk from
> > > within ADTPro 1.0.4, using the serial client. 5.25" worked fine,
> > > though. So, I ended up transferring Copy II Plus over to do it...
>
> > I found a satisfactory solution to keep the 5.25" format code from
> > moving in memory, so it's locked inside a single page.  Hopefully
> > that'll be the end of the 5.25" woes.
>
> > The 3.5" formatting story is a little different, though.  What state
> > were your 3.5" disks in when you tried to format them?  Were they
> > blank, PC format, HFS, or...?
>
> Mine were new blank media.
The problem is... I added a check to the SmartPort format routine that
checks if a device needs to be low-level formatted or not to be
compatible with CFFA-type devices.  Well, turns out... that routine
decides that 3.5" disks don't need to be low-level formatted
either. :-/  Not so good.  I'll get that fixed, as well as Nick's
suggestion to wrap the routine with interrupt protection and life
should get better for formatting.
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