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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
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Reply-To: timothym@tekigm2.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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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
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