Hello, Jean.  It is cold here in Florida tonight.

-=> JEAN PARROT wrote to MIKE ROSS <=-
 JP>      Good morning, Mike.
 JP> How do you do a ll format ?

 MR> In ancient pre-IDE times it was done by using DEBUG g=c800:5 or
 MR> similar. This brought up the hd-controller bios ll formatting and
 MR> surface defect mapping utility.

 JP>You lost me in the dust here. You might have a procedure that would
 JP>do a ll. Good on you. I saw it done once by a techie and I
 JP>was sure that not too many here had the PRG to do that.

I got to work on a lot of XT's when I first started doing volunteer
work.  Those who didn't like DEBUG (I was one of them) used a
program named Seagate Disk Manager to low level format the MFM and RLL
drives. After that, we used Norton's CALIBRATE to set the interleave to
the proper value.  That one used to run overnight on old slow XT's.
After that, we ran DOS FDISK and FORMAT.

... "Bother!" said Pooh, as his system couldn't find his hard drive
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