19 Mar
2004
19 Mar
'04
5:48 a.m.
ben franchuk wrote:
Brad Parker wrote:
The problem is that they format the disks with a non-standard block size
(remember, lisp machines existed long before PC's) and they don't supply
the software to format the ESDI disks.
I suppose if I had an ESDI controller on another machine which would
allow me to format ESDI disks with arbitrary block sizes I could do it.
But I don't know any such beast.
I suppose there has to be ISA bus ESDI controller from WD - any know if
such a controller will allow one to format a disk with a block size > 512?
-brad
Andreas Holz wrote:
It's for an XL1200,
the last in the line of ivory based machines.
My understanding is that the FEP and genera can both format SCSI drives.
They won't format ESDI drives (which I have lots of) due to the need for
a bad block list.
So create a DUMMY bad block list and use the stupid drive is what I think.
Jsut don't make the boot sector bad! :)