27 Nov
2003
27 Nov
'03
10:43 p.m.
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 ... )