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From: vertical@wpi.wpi.edu (Gregory N. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,wpi.sys.ibm
Subject: Hard Drive Format Failure
Keywords: hard drive format
Message-ID: <5638@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 05:28:09 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass.
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Earlier I posted an article about a problem I was having formatting a
hard drive.  So far, the replies have received have suggested using
fdisk before formatting.  I had been doing that all along though.  For
those who didn't see my earlier message, here it is again:

>I am trying to format a hard drive in a Model 25.  The hard drive
>mechanism is a Miniscribe 20 meg and the card is a CMS Controller
>Card.  When using the low level format in debug, it formats ok.  When
>formatting with format c:/s/v it says it can't write the directory.
>When using PC tools Disk formatter version 4.11, it returns the error
>code: 02h no addr mark c0,h1,s:18
>
>If anyone can help me out, I would appreciate it.  Please respond
>through mail, not in the newsgroup.
>
>                                       Thank you
>
>                                               Tony
>
>                                               vertical@wpi.wpi.edu
>                                               vertical@wpi.bitnet

To be more specific, the Miniscribe is model 8425 and the Controller
Card is a Western Digital WD1002A-WX1.

					Thanks again,

						Tony
						vertical@wpi.wpi.edu
						vertical@wpi.bitnet