Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!pruss From: pruss@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (Alex Pruss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: HD controller low-level format program Message-ID: <778@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> Date: 16 Aug 90 15:09:30 GMT References: <3101.26c7c9e4@cc.curtin.edu.au> Organization: University of Western Ontario, London Lines: 26 In article jeff@marichal.austin.ibm.com (Jeff Johnson) writes: >In <3101.26c7c9e4@cc.curtin.edu.au> Gumley_LE@cc.curtin.edu.au (Liam Gumley) writes: > >Most controllers with ROM-based format utilities put them at C800:5. An >alternate address (used by my WD1006SR2) is CC00:5. > >To start the format utility, boot DOS, enter debug, and type > g=C800:5 >or it that doesn't work, try > g=CC00:5 > >This should start the program. Follow the prompts from there. However this will format with the default interleave. This may or may not be the optimal interleave. If you know your optimal interleave, you will want to put it in. Probably if you run the straight format it'll tell you where to put it. On my system it is in AL (Format version 7--Western Digital). Thus: debug -rax 0004 ; or whatever interleave you want g=c800:5 ; or cc00:5 -- pruss@uwo.ca