Formatting and verifying MFM hard disks

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atarimuseum.com>
Date: Fri Nov 28 08:12:32 2003

Ahhh!!! Now THATS the command, its been a loooooong time since I've run
that command, I knew it was something like that, thanks for given the full
command info, good to remember it exactly now :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner" <spc_at_conman.org>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: Formatting and verifying MFM hard disks


> It was thus said that the Great Curt Vendel once stated:
> >
> > Well, lets see.... if your on a PC, I think if you type at the DOS
prompt
> > c:\> debug c800 that put you into the MFM controller firmware and you
could
> > perform a low level format of the drive....
>
> If it is MFM and you have DEBUG (which if you have MS-DOS, you probably
> do), then:
>
> C:\>debug
> -g c800:0005
>
> (and when you get back to the DEBUG prompt "-")
>
> -q
>
> C:\>
>
> If the machine crashes or does something really odd when you type
> "g c800:0005" into DEBUG, then you either don't have an MFM drive that can
> be low lever formatted, or the MRM ROM has been mapped elsewhere in the
> region of $A0000-$EFFFF.
>
> -spc (Okay, I *really* wish this information would leave my brain ... )
>
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