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From: keithm@wicat.UUCP (Keith McQueen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: AT Hard disk format low-level format utility
Summary: Need AT diagnostics
Message-ID: <437@wicat.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 89 16:28:27 GMT
Reply-To: keithm@wicat.UUCP (Keith McQueen)
Organization: WICAT Systems, Orem, Utah
Lines: 28


     Ok, flame me for not paying attention when this was previously
discussed.

     I have recently aquired an AT clone in which I need to install
a new hard disk.  I have no utility diskette in order to low-level
format the hard disk.  Is such a thing available in the public-domain?
Or are such things too machine/bios specific to be generally available?

    The machine is a HERTZ 286 with an AMI bios.  I have discovered how
to get into the CMOS RAM setup routine, and can specify drive types,
and even get a list of what types the ROM supports.  I just need the
actual low-level format utility.  I tried using the Advanced Diagnostics
diskette from my old true blue IBM AT, but it only supports types 1-15.

    Can anyone help?  I do not have FTP access and they won't let me make
long distance calls from this machine for UUCP.  So I either need e-mail
or a phone number of a BBS that supports XMODEM/KERMIT transfer at 1200
baud.

     Thanks people!


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