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

["Adam Myrow" <myrow@micro-net.com>]

john1970@iamerica.net wrote in article <6765gr$97i$1@news1.iamerica.net>...
> 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....

Well, if you're getting "I/O ERROR" rather than "SYNTAX ERROR," you're
probably doing somethin right.  Either every disk you have is bad or your
drive has bit the dust.  I assume that you are using DOS 3.3 as you are
using a command.  For that system, whatever follows "INIT" is treated as a
default filename for the greeting program.  You must put a program by that
name on the disk for it to boot.  Almost everybody uses "INIT HELLO" for
their command.  If you add a "," to that and end with "D2," you will switch
all subsequent action to the second drive.  Likewise for drive 1.

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Adam Myrow