Command Interface 56 - 99
PARTITION PAT PT
Description-
Partitions a drive into separate discs. Since this is such a potentially
destructive command, it is broken up into 3 stages: UNLOCK, SETUP, & COMMIT. If
the partitioning is successful, each volume will be
automatically formatted
to a FAT-16
volume. This is done to reduce a step in the process and since any partitioned drive must
have all of its discs formatted to be of any use. The limits to partitioning are 32 discs per
drive and 4 GBs per disc, for a total maximum capacity of 128 Gigs. Disc sizes are
specified in MB capacity (1024 = 1 GB, 2048 = 2 GB, 128 = 128 MB, etc.) and if you
argue a size greater than is physically possible, the drive will still be partitioned up to its
maximum capacity. This allows the command "PARTITION SETUP 4096 4096 4096
4096 4096" to be used to format a drive up to 20 GB in size to the maximum capacity per
disc.
NOTE: Once you are past Stage 1, any errors will cause the routine to reset.
PARTITION Stage 1
Description-
The first stage, UNLOCK, takes the command out of the locked state and
enters the unlocked state.
Form-
PARTITION/PAT/PT UNLOCK
PARTITION Stage 2
Description-
The second stage, SETUP, takes the command out of the unlocked state,
extracts the drive and the volume size(s) from the arguments, and enters the setup state.
Form-
PARTITION/PAT/PT SETUP [DEFAULT [DRIVE] [PARTITION]]
Arguments-
SETUP
TEXT
DESCRIPTION
Drive
The numeric representation of the drive
Partition
The numeric representation of the partition. This argument is
optional. It will narrow the Partition to a single partition.
PARTITION Stage 3
Description-
The third stage, COMMIT, actually executes the partition command at the
drive and reports the result.
Form-
PARTITION/PAT/PT COMMIT