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Article #26Re: Need Program to do low level format
From: sryckman
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 21:50
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 21:50
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>I am looking for source code and or a working program to do a low >level format on a IBM-XT with a Seagate ST-225 (21M) hard drive. >I am not so much interested in saving an old dying hard drive as You probably don't need to write a program at all. Most of the old MFM drive controllers had an on-board formatter. Just go to a dos prompt and run debug..... from the debug prompt, try g=c800:5 That will start the internal formatter on most MFM controllers.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.iadfw.net!usenet From: sryckman@airmail.net Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Need Program to do low level format Date: 6 Apr 1996 21:50:10 GMT Organization: Guest user Message-ID: <4k6oui$7u5@airnews.iadfw.net> References: <4k2vvj$3ma$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Reply-To: sryckman@airmail.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dal06-16.ppp.iadfw.net X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5