Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!sjsca4!poffen From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: HD controller low-level format program Message-ID: <1990Aug16.185942.9612@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 16 Aug 90 18:59:42 GMT References: <3101.26c7c9e4@cc.curtin.edu.au> <778@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA. Lines: 33 In article <778@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> pruss@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (Alex Pruss) writes: >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 > I believe you will find this very vendor dependent. My Adaptec AHA1542B starts at c800:6, and it has prompts for various things (including interleave.) Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254