Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!ames!amdahl!nsc!ken From: ken@nsc.nsc.com (Ken Trant) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: FORMATTING a AT RLL drive Message-ID: <8191@nsc.nsc.com> Date: 1 Dec 88 18:04:30 GMT References: <12695@steinmetz.ge.com> Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 13 in article <12695@steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) says: > I beleive that the BIOS call to format the hard disk calls the > controller. Did you try using that? You can use Debug to format your HD (low level) the address is c800:5 even on an adaptec, at least the few systems I have tried it on. -- PATH= Second star to the right, {...Ken Trant...} and straight on till morning National SemiConductor, 1135 Kern Ave. M/S 7C-266; Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Uucp: ...{pyramid,sun,amdahl,apple}!nsc!ken