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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
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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. 


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