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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!utcsri!geac!aimed!seachg!jalsop
- From: jalsop@seachg.uucp (John Alsop)
- Subject: Re: Cheating of Low Level Format by AHA-1542B
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.021848.18022@seachg.uucp>
- Reply-To: jalsop@seachg.UUCP (John Alsop)
- Organization: Sea Change Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- References: <guest.1.721505160@ncucs>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 02:18:48 GMT
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- In article <guest.1.721505160@ncucs> guest@ncucs writes:
- >
- > I have a Quantum LP105S connected to AHA-1542B. When it comes with DOS
- >v5.0. they live a happy life, but once I install a 386BSD unix system and
- >now I will return to DOS, the disk still start the UNIX booting even I have
- >using the BIOS offset 0x0006 initialize the HD(it told me that it's a LOW-
- >LEVEL format!!!), fdisk and dos format. That's to say the disklabel written
- >by UNIX still attatch in the disk!
- >
- The LP105S (and possibly other Quantum drives) does not by default do a full
- low-level format when you send the SCSI format command. To get the drive
- really formatted, you have to set one of the fields in one of the mode
- pages. Not having the manual handy, that's all I can tell you for now.
-
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- John Alsop
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