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Re: CP/M and a hard drive on a Apple II
- Subject: Re: CP/M and a hard drive on a Apple II
- From: pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)
- Date: 2000/05/07
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Svensk Amat|rAstronomisk F|rening (SAAF)
- References: <VV_Q4.3250$7B6.257165@nntp1.onemain.com>
In article <VV_Q4.3250$7B6.257165@nntp1.onemain.com>,
Bart <me2@nowhere.org> wrote:
> I have an Apple clone (Franklin Ace 1200) with a CP/M card (Ace 80 card).
> I also have a hard drive (drive on a card from Alltech Electroinics called
> a Focus drive). I was just thinking....is there any way to format it in
> CP/M?
Presumably your harddisk already is low-level formatted. So what
remains is to write initial data to the sectors: an empty directory,
etc. If you don't need to boot from that drive, doing so in CP/M is
extremely easy: merely write hex E5 to every byte in every sector of
the disk.
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