🚀 go-pugleaf

   Well they say pride goes before a fall.  But I definitely feel hard
   done by.  I've been in computing for nearly 30 years and feel
   pretty happy inside a PC.  Mention ISA, EISA, VL, PCI, SCSI, IDE,
   MFM, RLL and I know whats what.  So when an old friend said her
   hard disk was becoming very unrelialble I was all ready to show off
   and said I'd be round tomorrow.

   Well when I got through the layers of dust and found how the cover
   came off I was a tad surprised to find a 8 bit bus.  History says
   there were computers with hard drives before the AT, but I had never
   seen one.

   The faulty hard drive turned out to be a 20 MB ST225 (MFM).  Which
   was convenient because I just happened to have a spare ST225 with
   me in my bag.  The disk controller was a WD1002.  It is really well
   supplied with options, links W1 thru W7 and S1 thru S8.  It would
   be conforting to know what the did but I probably don't need the
   information, unless one of them enables drives/low level format.
   What I need to do is a low level format on the replacement ST225,
   because the WD1002 will not recognise it.

   I tried using DEBUG to invoke INT 13, function 7 (XT format) but
   that didn't seem to do anything.  I'm going to look a right banana
   if I can't get this going for her.  Suggestions anybody?

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Peter Hayward, Cambridge, UK                 | Life is symetrical about 42
peter@cdsl.demon.co.uk, tel +44-1223-312-923 | and I'm on the downside.