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- From: rl@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (roger.h.levy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
- Subject: Re: Low level drive format on PC6300
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.033609.12805@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 03:36:09 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.213207.28487@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <93006.130019LNSCC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
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- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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- In article <93006.130019LNSCC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, <LNSCC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
- > DEBUG
- > -GC800:5
- >
- > should get you to the lowlevel format if the BIOS is at that address.
- >
- The writer is responding to a request for help in LL formatting the HD
- in a 6300. Note that his method does not work for 6300s that were
- purchased with hard disks since those disk contollers do not have their
- own on-board BIOS. This method may work, depending on the controller,
- for machines that were equipped with after-market disk subsystems.
-