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- From: sjgreen@cs.toronto.edu (Steve Green)
- Subject: Re: How to low level format an ESDI drive?
- Message-ID: <92Nov9.202751est.47907@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- References: <Bx7EnD.MCs@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 01:28:07 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair) writes:
- > zuniga@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Ralph Zuniga (FREAC/CAR)) writes:
- >
- >
- > > We need to format an ESDI hard drive installed on
- > >a PS2/Model 80. Can this be done using debug? If so how?
- >
- > Boot the reference diskette
- > press "CTL-A"
- > select "format a hard drive"
- >
- > And work your way through the warnings that you'll lose all data.
- >
- > Hope that's low-level enough. It does remove all partitioning information
- > (shortly after the start of pass 2... if that's all you want to do you can
- > reboot after pass 2 cylinder 2)
-
- Wow, USENET is handy. I wanted to do just this thing tonight. Are
- there any other handy CTRL sequences that we should know about? I'm
- having the Devil's time trying to install DOS on a new model N51SX.
- Mostly, I try to boot from a DOS system floppy (made on another
- machine) and get the error "No operating system" how can I get around
- this?
-
- Any information would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Steve Green
-