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From: garyk@techsup.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy 2000 Hard Drives and Floppy
Message-ID: <15400011@techsup>
Date: 8 Aug 89 21:52:00 GMT
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/* Written  4:42 pm  Aug  8, 1989 by techsup.UUCP!garyk in techsup:comp.sys.tandy */
> 	5) An HD.  I'm using a surplus DEC RD-52 disk (nominal 35 Megabytes,
> 	   but I don't know how to tell MS-DOS to use past the first 10 Meg.)
> 	   You need an ST-506 drive with BUILT-IN RAMPED SEEK!!!  This is 
> 	   because the 2000 controller does not ramp it's seek commands and
> 	   hence will "lose" the non-ramped disk (you'll get head-positioning
> 	   errors that won't recover within 10 seconds of boot-up.)
> 
> 
> (Do you know how to tell MS-DOS to use more than the first 10 meg on a hard
> disk?)
> 
> 	-Good luck
> 	 Bill  
> 
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There are two options that might be of use on the Tandy 2000 HFORMAT program.

HFORMAT /p	< will cause the program to ask for number of heads & cyls.
		  DO NOT go over 32 megabytes!

HFORMAT /b	< prompts for the 'bad track' data

These can be used in combination with each other & the /s option.  I am told 
this is buried somewhere deep in the owners manual.



			Gary Kueck
			{sys1:trsvax}!techsup!garyk

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