Toshiba T3100e - Hard Disk Formatting Procedures; Hard Disk Format Program Description

File No. 960-010
3.17 HARD DISK FORMAT
There are two types of hard disk formatting:
1. Physical formatting
2. Logical formatting
This program 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
CAUTION: 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-DOS BACKUP command. (See the MS-DOS manual
for details.)
3.17.1 Program description
1. All track FORMAT
Performs physical formatting of hard disk in the manner
shown below.
20-Mbyte
40-Mbyte
Sector sequences:
1 1
Cylinders: 0 to
614
0 to
979
Heads:
0 to
2
0 to
4
Sectors:
o to
16 o to
16
Sector length: (bps) 512
512
2. Good track FORMAT
Executes the formatting of a specified cylinder and track as
a good track.
3. Bad track FORMAT
Executes the formatting of a specified cylinder and track as
a bad track.
4. Bad track CHECK
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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