From: Harold.Ruby@farwest.FidoNet.Org (Harold Ruby)
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Subject: Bios Address
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Date: 16 May 91  15:07:19 CST


    I'd like to apologize in advance for this blatantly off-topic post.  
However, there is no other area available where technical questions may be  
asked.. I only hope that the readers of this network find it a compliment that  
I would seek help from them. (It's not really that far off topic considering  
SOME of the things I've seen here <G>)

    I have an old XT with a VIC 20 and a DAK bios. None of this info is  
important though, what I need to know is how to low-level format my Segate  
238-R (RLL) harddrive.. I've lost the controller manual - but the segment  
address is fairly standard for this sort of thing.. 

(C:\DOS> debug
-g ????:????
; then the hard drive controller card's bios is called up and a program
; to low-level format the harddrive begins.. Polling questions about
; various aspects of the hard drive.

**>> I just need to know what the ????:???? address to get the ball rolling 
       (that is, to execute a lowlevel format).

Thanks in advance,
Harold

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