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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!osiris
- From: David Ruggiero <osiris@halcyon.com>
- Subject: Entry point for low-level format on XT controllers?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.040845.12764@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Originator: osiris@halcyon.com
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Reply-To: osiris@halcyon.halcyon.com (David Ruggiero)
- Organization: [none - why fight entropy?]
- Distribution: na
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:08:45 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- My memory is good but a bit rusty...could someone remind me what the
- entry point into the BIOS on a standard XT disk controller that
- initiates a low-level format? I recall typing something into DEBUG
- like:
-
- g:C800:5
-
- ....but this doesn't seem to work. I *could* try to scrape up a utility
- to do this, but that would mean me going to the machine rather than
- trying to fix it over the phone, and it seems a shame given that I know
- that the code is *somewhere* is the bios...
-
- Email would be appreciated; I will summarize and repost any answers.
-
- Thanks!
-
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- David Ruggiero (jdavid@halcyon.com) Seattle, WA: Home of the Moss People
-