Toshiba R100 Personal Computer User Manual


 
3 Tests and Diagnostics 3.22 Floppy Disk Drive Utilities
3.22.2 Operations
1. Selecting 7-FDD UTILITIES from the DIAGNOSTIC MENU and pressing Enter
displays the following message:
[ FDD UTILITIES ]
1 - FORMAT
2 - COPY
3 - DUMP
4 - HDD-ID
9 - EXIT TO DIAGNOSTICS MENU
2. FORMAT program
(a) When FORMAT program is loaded, the following message is displayed:
DIAGNOSTICS - FLOPPY DISK FORMAT : V6.00
Drive number select (1:A, 2:B) ?
(b) Select a drive number to display the following message:
Type select (0:2DD, 3:2HD) ?
(c) Select a media/drive type number and press Enter. A message will be
displayed:
Warning : Disk data will be destroyed.
Insert work disk into drive A:
Press any key when ready.
(d) Remove the Test program Disk from the FDD, insert the work disk and press
any key. The following message will be displayed and the FDD format is
executed:
[ FDD TYPE ] : TRACK = XXX
[ FDD TYPE ] : HEAD = X
[ FDD TYPE ] : SECTOR = XX
Format start
[[track, head = XXX X]]
After the floppy disk is formatted, the following message will appear:
Format complete
Another format (1:Yes/2:No) ?
(e) Typing 1 displays the message from step (c) above. Typing 2 returns the test
to the DIAGNOSTIC MENU.
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