+OLD CS1 Posted January 11, 2018 Share Posted January 11, 2018 I was trying to write a demo to floppy and kept running into errors near the end on two different 1541-IIs. In CBMXfer the status display of the copy lags behind to real location so it looked to me to be track 35. I threw in my trusty Indus GT and found the write was erroring out at track 36. I looked at the D64 of the demo and sure enough, it is roughly 190k instead of 170k. Writing a D64 requires the disk be formatted so I assume the problem is the tracks beyond 35 are not formatted. I am guessing I could copy the D64 from the SD2IEC mounted as a real disk using a copy utility like Maverick. I want to make this a little more simple. Does anyone know of a good method to format extended tracks (36-40?) While I am going to poke around the next couple of days and see what I can find I would appreciate anyone's input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted January 11, 2018 Author Share Posted January 11, 2018 Got it. I believe it is part of the nibtools set, but it is in with the CBMxfer and driver set: cbmformat -x 8 name,id The '-x' formats the extended tracks (up to 40.) Afterward extracting the D64 to the disk worked as expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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