DOS feature on formatting disk

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Dan Williams" <williams.dan at gmail.com>
>
>On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:16:11 -0800 (PST), Dwight K. Elvey
><dwight.elvey at amd.com> wrote:
>> Hi Randy
>>  I've written special drivers for the floppies
>> under DOS in the past so that isn't a real
>> issue. I just wish it would work without me
>> having to pull out the reference books to
>> deal with it.
>>  It works incorrectly in both MSDOS and PCDOS.
>> It is just annoying. The /u should mean just that,
>> unconditionally format.
>> Dwight
>> 
>  In MSDOS the /u doesn't actually mean unconditional in the normal
>sense. It means do not save unformat information, it will still stop
>if it gets errors.
>
>Dan
>

Hi
 Sure but what about not reading track 0 before formatting
means it should abort the formatting without first doing
a low level format of that track. It is just stupid.
If I completely erase the track, it formats just fine.
As Sellam says, it is just stupid design.
Dwight