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F Format Drive
This option formats the chosen SCSI drive, and should not normally be
required unless you specifically want to erase a winchester or change
the sector size or interleave, as SCSI drives are supplied pre-formatted.
Information required by SCSIFORM is as follows:
Drive number
or -ID
A positive number gives the SCSIFS drive number (4 to 7) of the drive
to be formatted, a negative value gives the SCSI ID x-1 of the drive to
be formatted.
Sector Size
Choose between 128, 256, 512 or 1024 bytes per sector by entering 0
to 3 respectively. The recommended value is 512.
Interleave
Sets the sector interleave factor. Normally, enter a value of 1. A value
of 2 will give improved speed performance in hi-res colour screen
modes such as 21, at the cost of reduced performance in other modes
with small drives (<= 70Mb). Larger drives tend to always run faster
with an interleave factor of 1.
Are you sure
This gives you a last chance to abort before formatting the drive - think
before you answer Y to this one!
The drive will then be formatted, which may take some time. When the
format is complete, you will be asked for a value for the large file
allocation unit. A value of 512 bytes is the default for 20Mb drives,
and 1024 bytes for all other sizes. On very large drives (>=300Mb), it
may be sensible to choose a larger value in order to reduce the amount
of space taken up by the disc map.
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