Toshiba M1 manual Tests and Diagnostics Floppy Disk Drive Utilities

3 Tests and Diagnostics 3.27 Floppy Disk Drive Utilities

3.27 Floppy Disk Drive Utilities

3.27.1Function 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 5.25-inch or 3.5-inch 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

This program reads the hard disk ID and displays the hard disk ID, serial number and other hard disk information.

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