Re: Formatting a disk for Apple ][e \ Laser 128

[Doug Browning <vgt507@freenet.mb.ca>]

What o/s arw you using? In Applesoft DOS 3.3, the command was INIT 
[filename] where filename=the basic program currently in memory (used as 
a startup program when the disk is booted). In ProDOS, there is no 
command to init disks, you have to run a disk setup utility, such as Copy 
][+, instead...

Doug Browning
vgt507@freenet.mb.ca
http://www.winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca/~vgt507

On 16 Dec 1997 john1970@iamerica.net wrote:

> Can someone tell me what the exact command for formatting a disk on an
> Apple 2c / 2e or Laser 128 computer?  I tried the initialize command by
> its self, added a 0, added a text string, etc. and they all seem to have
> the same result I/O Error on every disk I try (I thought the drive may
> be having problems at first, and still there may have been a
> write-protect notch stuck in it, so I may try looking at the drive....
> But a friend sugested that perhaps the command was wrong.  Also, how
> does one access the external floppy?
> 
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