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From: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Name that disk!!!
Keywords: CDC, ESDI
Message-ID: <802@mwtech.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 90 19:11:16 GMT
References: <1990Jun11.010304.19696@cbnews.att.com> <1990Jun15.203721.20567@pegasus.com>
Reply-To: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel)
Organization: MIKROS Systemware, Darmstadt/W-Germany
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In article <1990Jun15.203721.20567@pegasus.com> art@pegasus.com (Art Neilson) writes:
:In article <1990Jun11.010304.19696@cbnews.att.com> gwe@cbnews.att.com (George W. Erhart) writes:
[about formatting ESDI disks]
:Boot DOS on your system after
:setting the drive type to 1 and run debug.  At the debug - prompt enter
:the command g=c800:5 this will execute the code at memory address c800:0005,
:this usually is the location of the hard disk controller's low-level
:format routine in ROM.

Note that this may vary with the controller. Eg. BIOS of the WD 1007
will usually be located at CC00:5. Furthermore the adress may depend
on the type of display controller (Hercules or VGA).

Maybe this is some other item to put into the FAQ-list.
-- 
Martin Weitzel, email: martin@mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83