About formatting hard disks on the 3B1, ...

CME Ned Nowotny ned at pebbles.cad.mcc.com
Sun Jul 16 07:30:22 AEST 1989


is it possible to format a hard disk by invoking 'iv' from a floppy
disk boot file system?  If so, does 'iv' have the same 1024 cylinder
and 8 head limitation that the stock s4diag suffers from?  If not,
why can 'iv' format floppy disks and not hard disks?

Related comments would be appreciated.

Ned Nowotny, MCC CAD Program, Box 200195, Austin, TX  78720  Ph: (512) 338-3715
ARPA: ned at mcc.com                   UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cadillac!ned
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