Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mjbtn!raider!brainiac!sophist From: sophist@brainiac.raidernet.com (Phillip McReynolds) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Need to mark disk as initialized. Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 91 00:03:36 GMT Organization: Phillip's Philosophy Shop, Nashville TN Lines: 23 I have successfully RLL'd a Seagate 251-1 with a Seagate 8-bit RLL controller (ST11 using Seagate Bios v2.0). The only annoying thing I've experienced is that at bootup I get a message like this: Drive D has not been initialized and contains no initialization software. Would you like to initialize it (y/n)? Yes, I know that the message is there for my own good and my controller thinks it's doing me a favor, but there's no timeout so I have to be there anytime I boot my computer. My question: Is there any debug command (with address & instruction to write there) that I can use to put an "initialized" mark on this drive so to avoid this message at boot-up? Regards, = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Phillip A. McReynolds, sophist@brainiac.raidernet.com Licensed Philosopher org: Phillip's Philosophy Shop, Inc. (MPA Certified) "Quality Philosophy Products Since 1990" #include BiFF's_.sig = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =