[comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware] Need to mark disk as initialized.

sophist@brainiac.raidernet.com (Phillip McReynolds) (03/29/91)

I have successfully RLL'd a Seagate 251-1 with a Seagate 8-bit RLL
controller (ST11 using Seagate Bios v2.0).  The only annoying thing I've
experienced is that at bootup I get a message like this:

Drive D has not been initialized and contains no initialization
software.  Would you like to initialize it (y/n)?

Yes, I know that the message is there for my own good and my controller
thinks it's doing me a favor, but there's no timeout so I have to be
there anytime I boot my computer.

My question:  Is there any debug command (with address & instruction to
write there) that I can use to put an "initialized" mark on this drive
so to avoid this message at boot-up?

Regards,

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Phillip A. McReynolds,                  sophist@brainiac.raidernet.com
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