CMD FD Series User's Manual
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Djsk Drives User's Manual For all FD Series Models Copyright Notice Copyright © 1992 by Creative Micro Designs, Inc. Fourth Edition, First Printing, October, 1993 All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced, in any form or by any means either manually or electronically without written permission from Creative Micro Designs, Inc. The FD Disk Operating System (FD-DOS) is protected under International and United States Copyright Laws, and may not be copied, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from Creative Micro Designs, Inc. JiffyDOSTM, RAMLinkTM, FD-2000TM, FD-4000TM, and HD Series™ are trademarks of Creative Micro Designs, Inc. Commodore 64®, 64CTM, SX- 64™, C-128™, C-128-DTM, 154FM, 1541-CTM, 1541-IITM, 1571™, and 1581™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Commodore Electronics Limited. Amiga™ is a trademark of Commodore Amiga. GEOSTM, GEOS deskTopTM, GEORAMTM, and Berkeley Softworks™ are trademarks of Berkeley Softworks. CP/M® is a registered trademark of Digital Research Corporation. IBM® is a registered trademark of International Business Machines. Table of Contents Section 1: General Information ,( Introduction ................................................................................... ~ 1 Features ......................................................................................... 1 Orders ........................................................................................... 2 Technical Assistance and Information .................................................. 2 Section 2: Getting Started Hookup ......................................................................................... 3 Powering Up .................................................................................. 3 Device Number Configuration ........................................................... 4 Section 3: Using the FD Before you Start ................................ , ............................................. 5 Modes of Operation ......................................................................... 5 1581 Compatible Mode ................................................................. 5 CMD Partition able Mode ............................................................... 5 Formatting Disks ............................................................................ 7 Disk Types ................................................................................. 7 Formatting Diskettes .................................................................... 7 Write Protecting Disks .................................................................. 8 Partitioning Disks ........................................................................... 8 Copying Software to the FD ........................................................... 10 Softwa~e without copy-protection .................................................. 10 Copy-Protected Software .............................................................. 11 GEOS, gateWay and Cp/M ........................................................... 12 1581 Compatible Software ........................................................... 12 Popular Programs that work on the FD .......................................... 13 Loading and Running Programs ....................................................... 13 Changing Partitions .................................................................... 13 Swapping Device Numbers .......................................................... 14 C-128 Autoboot Programs ........................................................... 15 Backing up Disks and Files ............................................................. 15 Real Time Clock Option ................................................................ 17 Setting the RTC ........................................................................ 17 Viewing the Current Time ........................................................... 17 Viewing Time and Date Stamped Directories ................................... 17 Setting the GEOS Clock from the RTC ......................................... 17 Section 4: Using the FD with GEOS Before you Begin ........................................................................... 19 Using the FD with the GEOS Desktop .............................................. 19 Using the FD with gateWay ............................................................ 21 Using CMD_MOVE ...................................................................... 24 Table of Contents Section 5: Using the FD with CP/M Before you Begin ........................................................................... 25 Using Cp/M ................................................................................ 26 Section 6: Partitions and Subdirectories Introduction .................................................................................. 27 Partitions ..................................................................................... 27 Native Mode Partitions ................................................................ 27 Emulation Mode Partitions .......................................................... 28 Native Mode Subdirectories ............................................................. 29 Section 7: Command Reference Command Syntax .......................................................................... 31 Command String Elements .......................................................... 31 Example command string ............................................................. 32 Paths in Command Strings .......................................................... 32 Subdirectory Paths Using JiffyDOS Commands ............................ 34 Sending Commands from BASIC .............................. ~ ...................... 34 The Command ChanneL ................................................................. 34 Reading Disk Errors .................................................................... 36 Partition Numbers in File Names ..................................................... 37 Partition Numbers in Disk Commands .............................................. 37 Partition Commands ...................................................................... 38 Creating Partitions ..................................................................... 38 Creating 1581 Style Sub-partitions ............................................. 38 Deleting Partitions ..................................................................... 39 Deleting 1581 Style Sub-partitions ......................................... ~ ... 39 Changing Partitions .................................................................... 39 Moving Between 1581 Style Sub-partitions ................................ .40 Formatting Partitions and Disks .................................................... 40 Formatting 1581 Style Sub-partitions ........................................ .42 Initializing Partitions .................................................................. 43 Validating Partitions ................................................................... 43 Partition directory ....................................................................... 44 Renaming Partitions ................................................................... 44 Renaming Directory Headers ......................................................... 45 Getting Partition Information ....................................................... 45 Autobooting ................................................................................. 46 Subdirectory Commands ................................................................. 47 Creating Native Mode Subdirectories .............................................. 47 . Moving Between Native Mode Subdirectories ................................. .48 Deleting Native Mode Subdirectories .......................... ; ................... 49 Viewing Directories ....................................................................... 50 Pattern Matching ........................................................................ 50 Time and Date Stamped Directory Listings ...................................... 51 ii Table of ClOl'ltent~ File Commands ........................................................................... , 53 Loading Files ............................................................................ 53 Saving Files .............................................................................. 54 Verifying Files .......................................................................... 55 Renaming Files .......................................................................... 56 Scratching (deleting) Files ............................................................ 57 Copying Files ........................................................................... 58 Copying files between drives ..................................................... 58 Copying and Combining files between partitions .......................... 58 Locking .................................................................................... 60 Relative File Commands ................................................................ 61 Opening or Creating a Relative File ............................................... 61 Positioning to a Specific Record ................................................... 62 Direct Access Commands ................................................................ 63 The Direct Access ChanneL ........................................................