keithm@wicat.UUCP (Keith McQueen) (11/18/89)
Ok, flame me for not paying attention when this was previously
discussed.
I have recently aquired an AT clone in which I need to install
a new hard disk. I have no utility diskette in order to low-level
format the hard disk. Is such a thing available in the public-domain?
Or are such things too machine/bios specific to be generally available?
The machine is a HERTZ 286 with an AMI bios. I have discovered how
to get into the CMOS RAM setup routine, and can specify drive types,
and even get a list of what types the ROM supports. I just need the
actual low-level format utility. I tried using the Advanced Diagnostics
diskette from my old true blue IBM AT, but it only supports types 1-15.
Can anyone help? I do not have FTP access and they won't let me make
long distance calls from this machine for UUCP. So I either need e-mail
or a phone number of a BBS that supports XMODEM/KERMIT transfer at 1200
baud.
Thanks people!
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Have you tried using DEBUG to run from c800:5 ? The controllerl may have a built-in formatting program.