Need Program to do low level format

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3 total messages Started by dpmullin Fri, 05 Apr 1996 11:25

#25

Author: dpmullin
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 11:25

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Hello People

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 
I am in just trying to see what happens. If it fixes the hard 
drive, or keeps it going for a little longer then I will have 
done what I set out to do. I can compile C, or C++, or assembler. 
I have both Borland and Microsoft development systems to handle 
most types of code.

                            Thank You For Your Time
                             Douglas P. Mullin
                            dpmullin@ix.netcom.com

Re: Need Program to do low level format

#26

Author: sryckman
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.

Re: Need Program to do low level format

#27

Author: Lawrence Kirby
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 22:23

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In article <4k2vvj$3ma$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com>
           75604.20@CompuServe.COM "dpmullin@ix.netcom.com" writes:

>Hello People
>
>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.

This is more relevant to a systems newsgroup rather than a language
newsgroup. If you just want to format the drive why don't you just look
for a low level formatting program? There's bound to be one floating around
somewhere in a disk utilities directory in a major archive such as SimTel.

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