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From: cs153020@cslab8f.cs.brown.edu (Joel Scotkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Low level format on PS/2
Keywords: format PS/2
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Date: 22 Sep 90 21:23:53 GMT
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Reply-To: cs153020@cslab8f.cs.brown.edu (Joel Scotkin)
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A friend of mine just bought a PS/2 model P70 (the portable) with a 120
meg disk drive.  
True to IBM style, it came without operating system etc.  He bought DOS
4.01 separately,
and swore he knew how to install it himself,  fdisk, format, and all. 
Well, the first 
thing he did was to run Norton Disk Doctor on the unpartitioned disk
(only he knows why),
and it seems to have really destroyed the partition table and other
things, to the point 
where fdisk refuses to talk to it - it show non-dos partitions all over,
and cannot remove
them.  So, I want to do a low-level format on the disk and start over,
but he doesn't have
a program to do this, and I was hoping maybe somebody could tell me if
there is a ROM
level address for this.  (I already tried the obvious ones, like debug
at g=c800:0, and c800:5).
 
     Thanks a lot,
      Joel 



Joel "the Incredible Bouncing Bullfrog" Scotkin
cs153020@cs.brown.edu