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From: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Flopfmt = HDfmt???
Message-ID: <686@opal.tubopal.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 89 12:53:35 GMT
References: <111500028@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: alderaan@tubopal.UUCP (Thomas Cervera)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <111500028@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> sfn20715@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>I am writing a program to format hard drives using extended formats.
>My developers kit says the XBIOS function 10 (flopfmt) works for floppies.
>Does it work for hard drives too?  I assume all I have to do is change
>the device to 2 for drive C, 3 for D, etc, right?

  This Xbios call works for floppies only. To format your HD you'll have
to use the utilities coming with your hard drive.

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