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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Undocumented flag to FORMAT
Keywords: system/format drive df0: name Fishbreath NOICONS INHIBIT?
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Date: 14 Jul 89 16:52:55 GMT
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It turns off the disk validator for the indicated drive as soon as
the program starts.  Without it, you must hit return to start formatting
before the drive will become "busy".  With it, the drive goes "busy"
as soon as the format program has loaded. I suspect that this option
is there for the few poor souls who have crashed a floppy so badly that
just putting it in gurus the machine (hence the undocumentedness of it). 
Format it with inhibit and don't put the disk in until it prompts you to
press return. Note that DiskCopy inhibits right away; I wonder why?
		-- Darren