Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!hundt From: hundt@paul.rutgers.edu (Hundt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: disk drive/controller question Message-ID: Date: 4 Jan 89 20:31:35 GMT References: <2252@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <447@megatek.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 21 > > by going into debug and issuing: -c800:5. The system hung. I I would hope you typed "g c800:5". Try also :3. > > The hard disk controller in my pc-xt is an IBM 1501492. > Some Adeptec controllers use offset 0CCC as the entry point to their > formatting routines. You could try that. Please don't take this Doubt that it would work, IBM doesn't use adaptec, to they? > as a joke, but have you tried calling IBM? If they don't give you Probably better luck calling the company you bought the drive from. -- RRRRRR Thomas M. Hundt RR RR Gradual Student --- Electrical & Computer Engineering RR RR Rutgers University RRRRR New Brunswick NJ RR RR hundt@occlusal.rutgers.edu RRR RRR Famous last words: "The virus ate it."