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5.1.2 Formatting Program for SRAM Silicon Disk
Similar to a disk SRAM silicon disks have to be formatted before they are usable as storage media
under DOS. The program FORMATSD.EXE serves to format the silicon disk. Under MS-DOS the
program is called as follows:
[c:][path]FORMATSD d:[/D:xx][/S]
The particular parameters have the following function:
[c:][path] specification of drive and path with the FORMATSD-command file
d: specification of the silicon disk drive, which is to be formatted
/D:xx this parameter specifies, how much space is to be reserved for directory entries.
xx can take values between 1 and 99. If this parameter is missing, space for 64
directory entries will be reserved.
/S by means of this parameter the operating system files of the MS-DOS boot
drive will be copied to the new silicon disk. This is necessary, if the new silicon
disk should be bootable.
Attention:
This program deletes all data on the specific drive!
The program FORMATSD has to be executed before other programs or system commands (e.g.
DIR) access the silicon disk drive to be formatted. If this is disregarded, it might happen that the
silicon disk drive will not be formatted with the desired size.