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Re: ROM addresses for low level formats

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From: Kai Voelcker
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1991 17:12
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lamb@xtcn.com (Richard Lamb) writes:
> Does anyone happen to know what the magic format addresses are for a 
> 	WD1003-WA2 F002 X8D Controller
Try g=cc00:0005. This is the correct address for WD 1006 SR2.
> [..]
> Do I have to buy Spinrite to format my Rodime 3055 drive ?
Spinrite is not especially for low level formatting. e.g. Norton Calibrate
is similar. With these You can change the interleave without any data loss 
and much more... Disk Manager by On Track also can perform low level
formatting.
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From: kai@kaiki.toppoint.de (Kai Voelcker)
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Subject: Re: ROM addresses for low level formats
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