Yes, the rectangular 9V ones. To be honest I don't know anything about the motors. I was given this project for school and it had been half assembled.
So the code should be this for forward?
//power both Motor
digitalWrite(IN1, HIGH);
digitalWrite(IN2, LOW);
digitalWrite(IN3, HIGH);
digitalWrite(IN4, LOW);
Is the message about the memory in the original post normal? As that is what I have been lead to believe is the problem.