3 Feb
2008
3 Feb
'08
9:17 a.m.
Hmmm...... What you need is a copy of the orig CPQ System Utilities
diskette that shipped with the Portable, it would've had hdformat.com on
it to do a low-level on the HD... I'm trying to think if early PC-DOS
2.21 (I think it was a powdery pink colored label DOS diskette) may have
had a generic low level formatter on it.
Curt
Roger Pugh wrote:
On 3 Feb 2008, at 16:08, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Should work, the controller is a Western Digital,
I don't know about
the Rodime drive, but I've done is numerous times with Seagate drives:
debug command g=c800:5
You should get into the WD monitor ROM and be able to do a low level,
make sure you set the interleave correctly, I've used 3:1 as it was
always a safe setting.
Roger Pugh wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> does anyone know the correct incantation to low level format an MFM
> drive, a rodime 351, driven by a Compaq controller board.
>
> I,ve tried with debug G=C800:5 to no avail. there is no format
> program there!.
> The driver board has no real description on it, just
>
> Compaq computer corp 1983 and assy 61-031074-00
>
checking on debug, d=c000:0 the rom is compaq with no refrence to
western digital, although the board contains WD silicon. |I think i
have a homegrown compaq product here. i know it was original in the
m/c along with the HD. Debug just locks up after calling the program.
roger