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- From: rl@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (roger.h.levy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
- Subject: Re: Low level drive format on PC6300
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.011032.29032@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 01:10:32 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.213207.28487@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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- In article <1992Dec29.213207.28487@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, k2ph@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (The QRPer) writes:
- > About once a year I get the "opportunity" to low level format
- > a Seagate ST225 or equivalent for use with some old PC6300.
- > I know there is a way of doing this with debug, but I forgot
- > how. As I recall, the interleave should be set to something
- > nonobvious as well.
- >
- > If anyone can tell me how to do this, I would greatly appreciate
- > it. This time I'm going to write it down, put it on a floppy,
- > and store it on 3 different computers. :-)
- >
- I don't know of a way of doing this with debug - that's the method
- typically used to access a routine in the BIOS of an AT compatible
- machine that does LL format. For the 6300, there are a couple of
- programs available that may be downloaded from the AT&T BBS. I use
- "lowform" - you may specify an interleave (3 or 4 should be right
- for an ST225) or for a 6300+, lowform will figure out the optimum
- interleave. In the past, I've relied on Spinrite for interleave
- optimization.
-
- The AT&T BBS is 908-769-6397. About 6 months ago, the new care-
- takers at NCR devasted this board, which had provided a lively
- discussion of the 6300. The message groups are gone but one may
- still download from it. In typical AT&T "out-of-touch-with-the-
- rest-of-the world" fashion, the communications parameters for this
- board are 7-E-1. You'll contact a UNIX box which asks you to log
- in as "guest" or something similar. I don't think the administators
- were imaginiative enough to make this BBS look typical.
-
- Roger Levy
-