noel@uokmax.UUCP (Bamf) (07/14/89)
The 1.3 version of FORMAT has a flag [INHIBIT] that is not mentioned in the documentation. What exactly does this inhibit? (I'm ignoring the multitude of jokes that this prompts, in favor of knowledge...) -- /* "Can you do something out of this world?" -- Supertramp ----You want it should sing too?------| noel@uokmax | csm9a!bgphp1!ngorelic <Dis-Claimer, Dat-Claimer, to look at | ...texsun!uokmax!tavern!anyone 'em, you'd never know the diff...> | "Beam me up Scotty, we're outta beer" */
new@udel.EDU (Darren New) (07/14/89)
It turns off the disk validator for the indicated drive as soon as the program starts. Without it, you must hit return to start formatting before the drive will become "busy". With it, the drive goes "busy" as soon as the format program has loaded. I suspect that this option is there for the few poor souls who have crashed a floppy so badly that just putting it in gurus the machine (hence the undocumentedness of it). Format it with inhibit and don't put the disk in until it prompts you to press return. Note that DiskCopy inhibits right away; I wonder why? -- Darren
billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) (07/18/89)
From article <3489@uokmax.UUCP:, by noel@uokmax.UUCP (Bamf):
:
: The 1.3 version of FORMAT has a flag [INHIBIT] that is not mentioned
: in the documentation. What exactly does this inhibit? (I'm
: ignoring the multitude of jokes that this prompts, in favor of knowledge...)
[INHIBIT] inhibits the drive validation mechanism. Try this, use
the inhibit option on a drive with no disk in, then insert a disk at the
RETURN prompt... Then try it again without the INHIBIT flag set. Adding
the INHIBIT flag allowed them to use the same code for CLI and Workbench
formats...
: /* "Can you do something out of this world?" -- Supertramp
: ----You want it should sing too?------| noel@uokmax | csm9a!bgphp1!ngorelic
: <Dis-Claimer, Dat-Claimer, to look at | ...texsun!uokmax!tavern!anyone
: 'em, you'd never know the diff...: | "Beam me up Scotty, we're outta beer" */
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