andreap@ms.uky.edu (Peach) (12/21/90)
We are starting to replace quite a few original hard disks in IBM XTs with 3rd party hard disks of comparable size. The problem is that these original hard disks use an original IBM hard disk controller. The usual DEBUG g=c800:5 low level format command does not work with this controller. Is there a way to use the IBM controller with these 3rd party drives or must we purchase a new controller as well? How do we perform the low level format? Harold Peach Ag Data Center Univ. of Kentucky Internet: hgpeach@ca.uky.edu * Please reply to the above address. This account is not mine.
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (12/24/90)
In article <andreap.661724785@s.ms.uky.edu> andreap@ms.uky.edu (Peach) writes: | We are starting to replace quite a few original hard disks in IBM XTs with 3rd | party hard disks of comparable size. The problem is that these original hard | disks use an original IBM hard disk controller. The usual DEBUG g=c800:5 low | level format command does not work with this controller. Is there a way to | use the IBM controller with these 3rd party drives or must we purchase a new | controller as well? How do we perform the low level format? You need the IBM "Advanced Diagnostics" disk. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me