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- From: sryckman@airmail.net
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- Subject: Re: Need Program to do low level format
- Date: 6 Apr 1996 21:50:10 GMT
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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
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- You probably don't need to write a program at all. Most of the old MFM
- drive controllers had an on-board formatter.
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- Just go to a dos prompt and run debug.....
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- from the debug prompt, try g=c800:5
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- That will start the internal formatter on most MFM controllers.
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