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From: rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Formatting Hard Drive for 3b2/310
Message-ID: <145@genco.bungi.com>
Date: 6 Dec 90 18:37:35 GMT
References: <49346@cornell.UUCP>
Reply-To: rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel)
Organization: Gentry & Assoc. Excelsior Springs, MO
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In article <49346@cornell.UUCP> murthy@algron.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy) writes:
>
>I have a 3b2/310, and I need to format a Micropolis 1325H drive for
>it.  Does anybody out there know how I can do this without an ID Tools
>diskette? (I can't find one around here)

To format a hard disk, use 'fmthard /dev/rdsk/device_name'.  If the device
does not exist, go into firmware mode  (shutdown -y -g0 -i5) and run 'filledt'
and the generate a new unix by running '/etc/system'.  This should create the
devices.