Xebec/IBM Debug Address for Low-Level Format?? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Jun 2005

I posted the Xebec debug commands to low-level the HD sometime in the
last couple of months. Check the archives and they are most likely
there. It is not a simple "go to" like the WD controllers, but rather a
series of IIRC I/O commands issued to the controller.

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  I want to perform a low-level format on my Seagate
ST-225 MFM hard drive - it has the Xebec (IBM) 1210 controller card. I cannot for the life
of me remember the address to use in Debug. I know how to use Debug; I've done
100's of LL formats - just not in the last dozen years or so. Does Anybody remember??
Please email off-list. Thank you.... My HDD is working, I just want to set it up right
from scratch. (In case anybody's wondering, I do a LL format on IDE drives before
using them, too.) Bill Pileggi 