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- 1. AT HARD DISK PREPARATION program 1.0
- KFH ASSOCIATES, 1985
- 2771, Middleborough
- SAN JOSE, CA 95132
-
- FOR IBM AT & COMPATIBLES
- PC and XT needs HDPREP.exe
- DOS 2.0/2.1/3.0/3.1
-
- ** If you think the program is useful to you,
- $35.00 donation to H. King at above
- address will register for updating service
-
-
- 2. The program READ in the hard disk drive parameters from the
- controller to determine the available number of heads and cylinders
- for each attached drive, if the controller follows the IBM BIO
- convention. Otherwise, the program defaults to 2 head and 100
- cylinders for each drive. When this happens, the controller usually
- has problem.
-
-
- 3. Hard disk preparation uses the controller default parameters in the
- BIOS.
-
- Instructions:
-
- The program is manual driven and self explanatory. The following is a
- summary.
-
- Options:
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- 1. Select the drive to be operated on. Drive 0 is the first hard disk
- drive attached to the controller (usually the C:), Drive 1 is the
- second one (usually the D:).
-
- 2. Perform the controller FORMAT of the specified drive by option 1.
- See option 3. Run FDISK and Dos FORMAT after this step.
- Bad track locations can be input at this step and the program
- will use the input to mark the bad ones accordingly.
-
- 3. Perform the controller FORMAT of the specified drive by option 1
- and scan the disk for bad tracks and mark them bad. Run FDISK and
- DOS FORMAT after this step. This option 3 is preferred to option 2.
- In the begining of this step, you can enter the bad tracks if you
- already know them. This step marks any bad track found,
- the ones you entered, at the end of the process.
-
- 4. Move the head to track 0 for the specified drive.
-
- 5. Exit this program.
-
- 6. Set the interleave number for the controller FORMAT. The default is
- 6 which is used by IBM PC/XT. Do not use other number unless you
- have enough knowedge on the controller. Adaptec controller can use
- interleave 2.
-
- 7. If you know a specific track and head location is bad, you can use
- this option to mark the track bad. Use DOS FDISK AND FORMAT after
- this step.
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- 8. If you want to remark a bad track to reuse the track, you can use this
- option. This option can not physically correct the defect track.
-
- 9. The same operation as the option 3, except during the verify process
- more data patterns are used. The process can take twice longer then
- the option 3. Usually, the option 3 is good enough.
-