Re: Apple ][ using PC floppy

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Dec 28, 7:29 am, vladitx <vlad...@nucleusys.com> wrote:
> On Dec 28, 1:38 pm, David Wilson <mcs6...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > To create a volume you need to do two things - low level track format
> > to create the raw blocks to be used by the filesystem
>
> That's where I hoped LS 6.0 may do the trick out of the box. Due to
> limited experience with ProDOS I was not sure about which tool can do
> the initial file system laying out.
I used the source code from a PD utility called "Hyper-FORMAT" when I
integrated arbitrary disk formatting into ADTPro.  There are a couple
of bugs in the original (mostly having to do with disks larger than
2.1MB), but it's very useful for learning how to do it.  That code is
on Asimov here:
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/disk_utils/proformat.bxy

ADTPro grafted its own UI, fixes and other stuff onto the original,
but you can see the changes I made to the guts of the formatter here:
http://adtpro.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/adtpro/adtpro/client/src/prodos/format.asm?revision=1.5&view=markup&pathrev=MAIN