Motherboard: Biostar N68SA-M2S
Processor: AMD Phenom 9100E Quad Core
Main Memory: 1GB
Video Board: Onboard Nvidea GeForce 7025
Sound Board: N/A
O/S: Windows 7 32bit
DOSBOX Version: 0.74
I have read the DOSBOX manual.
PROBLEM:
I want to be able to create, format, and work with floppy disk images.
I can mount and use floppy disk images created by raw-write-win http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite Version 0.7, Virtual Floppy http://vfd.sourceforge.net/ Version 2.1, and real physical floppy disks in a real floppy disk drive.
What I CAN NOT seem to do is to format any of the above. I am using the FreeDOS format program Version 0.91v. Example below using an image file created by raw-write-win containing a couple of files.
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C:\USERS\EDLOTT\DOSBOX>IMGMOUNT B C:\TESTFDD.IMG -T floppy -fs FAT
Drive B is mounted as C:\TESTFDD.IMG
C:\USERS\EDLOTT\DOSBOX> dir b:
Directory of B:\.
DIRP BAT 39 02-11-20138:10
MYM BAT 39 02-11-20138:10
2 Files 78 Bytes
0 Dir(s) 1,456,640 Bytes Free
C:\USERS\EDLOTT\DOSBOX>FORMAT B: /F:1440
Insert new diskette for drive B:
Press ENTER when the right disk is in the drive...
# Boot sector unreadable, disk not yet formatted
Formatting to 1440k (Cyl=80 head=2 Sec=18)
[Error 53]
C:\USERS\EDLOTT\DOSBOX> dir b:
Directory of B:\.
DIRP BAT 39 02-11-20138:10
MYM BAT 39 02-11-20138:10
2 Files 78 Bytes
0 Dir(s) 1,456,640 Bytes Free
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THE VERSION WITH DEBUG IS:
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C:\USERS\EDLOTT\DOSBOX>FORMAT B: /F:1440 /D
[DEBUG] Format 0.91v, selected drive B:
[DEBUG] Sector buffer at 0BBB:6770, track buffer at 0BBB:6B70
[DEBUG] Skipped ASSIGN check for diskette drive.
Insert new diskette for drive B:
Press ENTER when the right disk is in the drive...
[DEBUG] Checking whether we need low-level format.
[DEBUG] Test-reading boot sector.
[FF]*[FF]*[FF]*[FF]#[DEBUG] Error code: 0x808
# Boot sector unreadable, disk not yet formatted
[DEBUG] Current Disk Drive Parameter Table Values at F000:1060:
[DEBUG] [DDPT] Sector size: code 0x00 Fill char: 0x00
Formatting to 1440k (Cyl=80 head=2 Sec=18)
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I can use the FreeDOS format program Version 0.91v to successfully format diskettes from a real boot floppy in a real floppy drive running FreeDos.
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This seems like something many people would like to do. I did some google searches and in the DOSBOX forum but was unable to find a solution to this problem; however I may have missed something. Any assistance you can provide would be much appreciated.
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Ed. Lott