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Version 3.00 - 09-15-90
FormatMaster has a new look! The format screen has been completely
revised. It is now an attractive display that includes a series of
boxes that contain pertinent dynamic formatting data.
Since it was first introduced, FM has used the system diskette BIOS
to format and verify floppy diskettes. In the early days of
development, FM was generally faster, even with verification turned ON,
than the DOS format utility. DOS version 3.2 and above included a
facility to format floppy drives, indeed any drive, through a an I/O
control for block devices function. This speeded up floppy drive
formatting considerably and resulted in the DOS format utility being
faster than FM (with verification ON).
FM version 3.00 now includes two options that utilize the DOS block
device control function for formatting and verification. These options
appear on the FM main menu as "DOS Format/Verify" and "Simultaneous
Format/Verify". If executed under DOS 3.1 or earlier, these menu items
will be disabled since the earlier versions of DOS did not support disk
formatting throught the block device control function. If either of
these new options are used, DOS will be called to perfom the formatting
and verification. The difference between these options is that the
first operates in FormatMaster fashion by keeping the format and
verification processes separately distinct. The second option operates
exactly like the DOS format program in that it performs verification
during the format. On a fast 386 machine running 3.3 DOS, FormatMaster
will format and verify a disk using the second option 15% faster than
DOS.
Version 3.10 - 09-17-90
- Added choice menu to format/verify operations
- Added check disk function to the main and choice menus
- Added dynamic display of format/verify progress
- Fixed minor bugs in format/verify message sequencing
New-Ware believes that formatting fresh, good quality diskettes
without verification is perfectly safe. New-Ware obtains diskettes from
MEI\Micro Center (Columbus, Ohio 1-800-634-3478) in bulk lots at 21
cents per disk and has formatted many thousands of product distribution
diskettes in an XT clone 5 1/4" 360K drive without attendant
verification. In three years, exactly 13 5 1/4" disks have been
returned as faulty. Of these, 5 were completely readable on all 4
New-Ware computer disk drives, 5 had been physically damaged in the
mail, and the remaining 3 had undetermined problems. If those three are
considered to be faulty do to the lack of a verification check, that
still is an impressive performance record and says something about both
FM and MEI diskette quality.
Version 3.10 - 09
New-Ware
Quality Shareware Products
8050 Camino Kiosco
San Diego, CA 92122
619-455-6225
Copyright 1990, All Rights Reserved.