Checking A Disc's Format - HP 9000 200 Series Manual

Checking a Disc's Format
To determine whether or not a disc is formatted, check to see if there is a directory on
the disc. To do this, look at the catalog with the
CAT
command (you may need to specify
the volume specifier if you loaded BASIC from a flexible disc):
CAT
I
Return
I
Catalogs the default drive.
CAT ":.700"
I
Return
I
Catalogs the volume :.700
There are two classes of results for a
CAT
operation:
• A catalog is displayed (indicating the disc is formatted)
• An error is reported (indicating the disc is not formatted; Error 1 indicates that
the disc is HFS formatted but the HFS binary has not been loaded).
LlF
The Disc Is Formatted
:CS80.700.1
LABEL: B9826
:CS80.700.1
LABEL: B9826
HFS FORMAT: HFS
The top catalog listing is shown for a
LIF volume, and the bottom listing is
for an HFS volume.
If you are not sure which format you
should use, see the next section, "Choos-
ing a Directory Format" .
The Disc Is Not Formatted
Error 85 Media uninitialized
Error 84 Record not Found
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