4 Feb
2008
4 Feb
'08
10:31 p.m.
On Sunday 03 February 2008 13:37, Paxton Hoag wrote:
One Compaq we have around here, while somewhat later (I think it's a P60 or
somesuch) had a separate diagnostic partition on the original 500M drive. In
trying to stuff another drive in there I was able to download all sorts of
stuff from their web site, which may or may not be possible with something
as old as what's being talked about here, but it's something that might be
worth a shot...
They did seem rather fond of that sort of thing, and a utility rather than
the more common debug route wouldn't surprise me in the least, particularly
if they've got their own ROM in the controller.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
> 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 Adaptec 2070A controller used G=C800:CCC and it is an 8 bit HD
controller of that vintage.
I have had several of the Compaq II Pluss in the past and ISTR that
the Format SW is on the Diagnostic disk, but it has been too many
years to be sure.