20 Jun
2009
20 Jun
'09
11:41 a.m.
On 20 Jun 2009 at 12:21, Dave McGuire wrote:
XT controllers do. But now I recall that Ian said
"WD1003" and I
seem
to recall that that's the AT controller series. I think I remember
using an "IBM Advancced Diagnostics" floppy, or something like that,
for this.
There are lots of third-party low-level formatters--and later, many
included in the BIOS setup screen. Basically, they just make INT 13H
BIOS calls to format a track at a time.
Landmark PC Probe is a good interleave-tester and formatter in my
experience.
--Chuck