Date   : Tue, 06 Jul 2004 19:26:01 +0100 (BST)
From   : Pete Turnbull <pete@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Winchester unit

On Jul 6, 15:39, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> In article <5035133C-CE03-11D8-AADD-000A27B4860C@...>, D.
G.
> van der Pol <danielg@...> writes
>
> >Does this sound familiar, or did I overlook something. I used HDForm
> >first to format, them I found Superform somewhere on the net. These
> >programs don't seem to care that my drive is using 512bytes/sector
>
> IIRC, they don't issue a Format Unit command, but just clear sectors
and
> lay out a filesystem map.  Hence the sector size is not changed.

SuperForm does issue a Format Unit command (preceded by a Mode Select)
but it's really only meant for an Adaptec controller.  HForm doesn't do
quite the same thing, though; it just issues a series of Write Track
commands.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York