Apple II
Technical Notes
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                                                  Developer Technical Support


ProDOS 8
#5:    ProDOS Block Device Formatting

Revised by:    Matt Deatherage                                  November 1988
Revised by:    Pete McDonald                                     October 1985

This Technical Note formerly described the ProDOS FORMATTER routine.
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The ProDOS 8 Update Manual now contains the information about the ProDOS 
FORMATTER routine which this Note formerly described.  This routine is 
available from Apple Software Licensing at Apple Computer, Inc., 20525 Mariani 
Avenue, M/S 38-I, Cupertino, CA, 95014 or (408) 974-4667.

Note:    This routine does not work properly with network volumes on 
either entry point.  You cannot format a network volume with 
ProDOS 8, nor can you make low-level device calls to it (as 
FORMATTER does in ENTRY2 to determine the characteristics of a 
volume).  As a general rule, it is better to use GET_FILE_INFO to 
determine the size of the volume since ProDOS MLI calls work with 
network volumes.


Further Reference
o    ProDOS 8 Update Manual

