torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) (05/28/91)
Hello everybody. I've got this problem with a old PC my sister just "inherited" (not from me). It works ok, but much of the hard-disk shows unrecoverable read-errors. I've marked them bad in the FAT by using PCTools, running surface analysis over the nigt, but I'd rather try to LL-format the drive while it's still relatively empty. The disk is a ST-277R(-1) (65 Mb RLL, 805 tracks or something, don't have the appropriate info here). The problem is that the controller doesn't have the ll-f routine in ROM (ie g=c800:5 doesn't work, and neither do the other, less likely addresses ([c8|d0|d8|e0]00:[5|6|13c|ccc].)) I've tried to find the "setup" (not CMOS setup, this isn't an AT, but a program with the same name) program on the (few) disks that came with the computer, and of course it isn't there. Can somebody send me a (free :-) replacement, or point me to a ftp-archive from which one could find it? advTHANKSance Linus Torvalds Internet: torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi PS. I won't be very interested in $$$-programs, but if there isn't anything free, I'll look at other options too.