Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekgen!tekigm2!timothym From: timothym@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Timothy D Margeson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Formatting a Hard Disk Message-ID: <1978@tekigm2.TEK.COM> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 15:26:08 EDT Article-I.D.: tekigm2.1978 Posted: Thu Jul 23 15:26:08 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 11:22:46 EDT References: <952@oakhill.UUCP> Reply-To: timothym@tekigm2.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 26 Keywords: format hard disk Hi, To format a hard disk using a Western Digital controller: Put your DOS disk in A: (whichever diskeete has debug on it). A: debug -rax AX XXXX :02 -g=c800:5 'ALL THE GOOD STUFF ABOUT FORMATTING THE HARD DISK' The above entries will set the interleave to 2 (the value placed in AX), although for a WD1002, 3 is the best it can do on a good day, and 4 if you have an 8086 based machine. Good luck... -- Tim Margeson (206)253-5240 PO Box 3500 d/s C1-937 @@ 'Who said that?' Vancouver, WA. 98668 {amd..hplabs}cae780!tektronix!tekigm2!timothym (this changes daily)