root@dosadi.UUCP (Maintenance Account) (10/12/86)
I'm trying to get an old 5 Meg hard disk running on my PC.
The players:
Zenith Z-150
IBM (Xebec, but without Xebec ROM) hard disk controller
Zenith MS-DOS 2.0
Seagate ST-506
For a while, I thought I actually had things going since the Zenith
Prep utility will talk correctly to the IBM controller. The problem
is that Prep thinks the ST-506 has 304 tracks, when it really has only
153. This really doesn't work considering that the badspot information
(the drive does have some) is stored on the last track.
So, my question is does anyone know of a low level format program that
will work with the above controller/drive combination? I have a PC
with a western digital controller at work, so if that controller ROM
can format a 5 Meg drive, I'd be willing to take it apart to do the
formatting.
Please refrain from telling me to just get a larger drive. The 5 Meg
was something that I just had lying around and wanted to put to use
(read free). It might not be much, but it's a lot better than a floppy.
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