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From: as@prg.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Ancient Hard Drive(s) Query
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Date: 23 Apr 91 09:27:49 GMT
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I have recently been given a really old hard-drive.
A real ST506 (single head, 5M!) enormous 5.25" box.

I am having some trouble getting this beasty to format on the Arch.
Reading and writing works just fine (I can format track 0) - but head
motion messes up badly.  This happens even when the relevant pairs of
lines for slow stepping drives HFORM are commented in/out.  Does anyone
have any experience of similar troubles and/or suggestions?  Any known
bugs in/newer versions of HFORM?  Do you need to modify it further for
*extra* slow stepping drives?


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        Andrew Stevens                  
      Programmming Research Group       JANET: Andrew.Stevens@uk.ac.oxford.prg         
 Oxford University Computing Laboratory INTERNET: Andrew.Stevens@prg.ox.ac.uk
     11 Keble Road, Oxford, England     UUCP:  ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!ox-prg!as
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