Name that disk!!!

Martin Weitzel martin at mwtech.UUCP
Sun Jun 17 05:11:16 AEST 1990


In article <1990Jun15.203721.20567 at pegasus.com> art at pegasus.com (Art Neilson) writes:
:In article <1990Jun11.010304.19696 at cbnews.att.com> gwe at cbnews.att.com (George W. Erhart) writes:
[about formatting ESDI disks]
:Boot DOS on your system after
:setting the drive type to 1 and run debug.  At the debug - prompt enter
:the command g=c800:5 this will execute the code at memory address c800:0005,
:this usually is the location of the hard disk controller's low-level
:format routine in ROM.

Note that this may vary with the controller. Eg. BIOS of the WD 1007
will usually be located at CC00:5. Furthermore the adress may depend
on the type of display controller (Hercules or VGA).

Maybe this is some other item to put into the FAQ-list.
-- 
Martin Weitzel, email: martin at mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83



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