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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Xebec controllers -- what jump address from debug?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.112329.18252@panix.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 11:23:29 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.202316.16175@verdix.com>
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- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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- In article <1992Sep8.202316.16175@verdix.com> svh@verdix.com (Steven Hovater) writes:
- >I have an old Xebec full-length MFM controller. Does anyone have first-hand
- >knowledge of the entry address to do a low-level format out of debug?
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- It isn't that simple. They don't have a formatting ROM on them.
- You use debug, but it's a series of port OUT commands to get it
- going. I used to have a printout of this somewhere, but ...
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- Franklly, it's simpler to just use a disk prep program like Disk Mangler
- or SpeedStor to do it for you.
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