Toshiba T1200 - 3.16 Hard Disk Format

3.16 BARD DISK FORMAT
There are two types of hard disk formatting:
1. Physical formatting
2. Loqical formatting
This proqram is for physical formatting of the hard disk~ it can
execute the following items.
1. All track FORMAT
2. Good track FORMAT
3. Bad track FORMAT
4. Bad track CHECK
Rote: Execution of the program cannot be performed unless the
HOD switch is on.
CA~ION: The contents of the hard disk will be erased when this
program is run. Before running the program, transfer
the contents of the hard disk on to a floppy disk. This
can be done with the MS-OOS BACKUP command. (See the
MS-DOS manual for details.)
3.16.1 Program descriptions
1. All track FORMAT
Performs physical
shown below.
(Execution time: 6 minutes)
formatting of hard disk in the manner
Sector sequences:
Cylinders:
Heads:
Sectors:
Sector length:
Bad track unit:
3
o to 611
o to 1 (lOMbytes)
o to 3 (20Mbytes)
1 to 17
512 bytes per sector
10 tracks (lOMbytes)
20 tracks (20Mbytes)
2. Good track PORKaT (Execution time: 1 second)
Executes the formatting of a specified cylinder and track as
a good track.
3. Bad track PORMA~ (Execution time: 1 second)
Executes the formatting of a specified cylinder and track as
a bad track.
4. Bad track C:HBCl( (Execution time: 1 and 1/2 minutes)
Checks for bad tracks by performing a read operation for all
tracks on the hard disk~ a list of bad tracks is then
displayed.
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