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From: ralphs@halcyon.wa.com (Ralph Sims)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HD controller low-level format program
Message-ID: <3a3wN2w162w@halcyon.wa.com>
Date: 14 Aug 90 23:12:13 GMT
References: <13788@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Organization: The 23:00 News
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brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance) writes:

>> After having some trouble recently with a controller for which I naturally
>> had no documentation, I was wondering is there an easy way to work out wher
>> start address of a ROM based low-level format program is, so that you can s
>> it up with DEBUG?

> First try going to location c800:5  or  c800:6. At worst your system will han
> If that doesn't work, try a program like System Sleuth, Sysid...

Also g=c800:ccc will work on some drives.  OPTUNE and SPEEDSTOR also will
low-level a drive, both destructive and non-destructive flavors.  Great
for dinking with interleaves.


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