Re: Recommended way to format disk from assembly?

[Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com>]

On Jan 3, 2:54 pm, David Schmidt <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On 1/3/2012 4:18 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
> Rich says he wrote it in the monitor.  How very
> Woz-esque of him.

Yeah, I cannot do that.  I cannot code without vi and make.  Cross-
compiling--how un-Woz of me.

> What if you start with a normally formatted disk, skip your RWTS format,
> and send the disk?  Would that boot?

Yep it does.  And the reverse does not boot.  I.e. format with RWTS,
then load up code with ADT.

> Have you started with the INIT code from the Beneath Apple DOS book
> (page A-12)?

Yeah, looked at it.  Although not optimal, I've settled on using the
"file manager" init.  The only overhead is that it writes out DOS at
the end.  But I can live with that and that code is working for me.
Moving forward.

Thanks again, this really helped.

BTW, thanks for the F-0 tip.  I can write tracks about 4x faster now.

P.S.  RE: my ADT issues with block 273.  It is hardware.  I can
duplicate with my own code.  Funny it happens on two different
machines, but more frequently on one than an other.  I need more
drives.