Commodore - Episode 443 - PET DISK NEW & COPY COMMAND - Dave Bradley - 4040 8032 CBM Diskette
2Just before I sent the disks away in the mail, I noticed that one of them was indeed notched so that I could do both sides, and so, I copied some Commodore 64 SID music files and the programs that play them onto the back of the disk, but I did not use the backup command, I used the combination of the NEW command and the COPY command, which is much slower, but instead of going track and sector by track and sector, it copies the actual files one by one...so yes, it takes more time, but at times it is a good thing to do...
To new a disk, do the following...but keep in mind that this will indeed format the disk and whatever was on it will be gone, gone, gone...
open15,8,15,"n0:new disk.nd":close15
That will format the disk in drive 0 of a 4040 or other dual drive, or single drive for that matter.
If you change the n0 to n1, it will format the disk in drive 1 of such a dual drive, but produce an error of some sort if you try it on a single drive.
It takes about a minute to format or new a disk and as long as the LED is not flashing or the error LED in the middle of the two drives is not on, then it has likely worked.
To see if it worked, load the directory...keeping in mind that anything in memory will be lost...
load"$",8 and press enter
then...
list and the directory should appear...
If you do not see a header and a block count then try it again...