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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!mberhan
- From: mberhan@cup.portal.com (Mike D Berhan)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
- Subject: Re: Cheating of Low Level Format by AHA-1542B
- Message-ID: <69671@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:55:52 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Distribution: world
- References: <guest.1.721505160@ncucs> <1992Nov16.021848.18022@seachg.uucp>
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- John Alsop writes:
-
- >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.
- >
- >
- >--
- >John Alsop
-
- From the Adaptec BBS (408) 945-7727, you can download SCSI_FMT.EXE. It'll
- format the Quantum drive (sends that custom MODE SELECT command you speak
- of).
-
- Mike Berhan
- mberhan@cup.portal.com
-