Floppy Disk Drive Utilities - Toshiba A100 VA3 - Satellite - Pentium Dual Core 1.6 GHz Maintenance Manual

3.24 Floppy Disk Drive Utilities

Tests and Diagnostics
3.24 Floppy Disk Drive Utilities
3.24.1 Function Description
This function formats the FDD, copies the floppy disk and displays the dump list for both the FDD
and HDD.
1. FORMAT
Caution: This program is only for testing a floppy disk drive. The option is different
from the MS-DOS FORMAT command.
This program formats the floppy disk in the following formats.
(a) 2DD: Double-sided, double-density, double-track, 96/135 TPI, MFM mode, 512
bytes, 9 sectors/track.
(b) 2HD: Double-sided, high-density, double-track, 96/135 TPI, MFM mode, 512
bytes, 18 sectors/track.
2. COPY
This program copies data from a source floppy disk to a target floppy disk.
3. DUMP
This program displays the contents of the floppy disk and the designated sectors of the hard
disk.
4. HDD-ID
This program reads the hard disk ID and displays the hard disk ID, serial number and other
hard disk information.
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