Date   : Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:38:20 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: IDE Interface for BBC

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 18:27, Richard Gellman wrote:
> so I have no idea what commands an ADFS 
> hard-drive formatter uses to format a HD, if such a piece of software 
> exists (drives come pre-formatted?).

For the Cambridge Workstation machines the HD formatter was on a
seperate 'utils' floppy. I don't think anyone knows whether it actually
shipped with the machines as part of the standard disk set or whether it
just leaked out into the wild later on. 

Standard BBC machines with the Acorn SCSI board may have been the same
(the ACW used the same Adaptec boards)

cheers

Jules