Toshiba A3X manual Floppy Disk Drive Utilities Tests and Diagnostics

3.24 Floppy Disk Drive Utilities 3 Tests and Diagnostics

3.24Floppy Disk Drive Utilities

3.24.1 Function Description

This function formats the FDD, copies the floppy disk and displays the dump list for both the FDD and HDD.

1. FORMAT

NOTE: This program is only for testing a floppy disk drive. The option is different from the Toshiba MS-DOS FORMAT command.

This program can format a floppy disk in the following formats:

(a)2DD: Double-sided, double-density, double-track, 96/135 TPI, MFM mode, 512 bytes, 9 sectors/track.

(b)2HD: Double-sided, high-density, double-track, 96/135 TPI, MFM mode, 512 bytes, 18 sectors/track.

2.COPY

This program copies data from a source floppy disk to a target floppy disk.

3.DUMP

This program displays the contents of the floppy disk and the designated sectors of the hard disk on the display.

4.HDD ID READ

This program reads the hard disk ID and displays hard disk information.

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