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- The WDFMT program is a versatile formatting utility which does a low-level
- format of the C drive. The program does a format pass, followed by a
- verify pass in which each sector on the drive is read 3 times. Any errors
- resulting from this verify pass are reported, and may be mapped out. The
- user may also specify other tracks to map bad in addition to, or instead
- of, the tracks found during the verify pass. There are clear prompts for
- user interaction throughout the program.
-
- The program is started by typing:
-
- WDFMT [cylinders[ heads [sectors[ interleave]]]]
- (brackets denote optional parameters)
-
- The default parameters are as follows:
- Cylinders: 500 Heads: 4
- Sectors: 34 Interleave: 3
-
- Parameters are parsed in order. Those not specified are defaulted.
-
- Example:
-
- WDFMT 612 4 17 2
- Formats drive with 612 cylinders, 4 heads, 17 sectors, interleave of 2.