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afdisk is a SCSI disk partitioning and high-level formatting utility. You
must use this utility to partition SCSI disks that are not mounted by the
486MIS BIOS. afdisk allows you to add or delete a DOS partition or to
delete a non-DOS partition.
afdisk.exe and its accompanying files afdisk.hlp (the help file) and
afdisk.cwa (the system file) are copied automatically to your fixed disk
when you run the DOS/WINDOWS DRIVERS Install program.
afdisk disk partitions are mounted when you boot your machine with the
aspidisk driver. Partitions that you create with afdisk are completely
compatible with DOS partitions.
Partitions that are moved to 486MIS BIOS control are bootable if they
were high-level formatted to include the system files (e.g., using the /s
option of DOS format.com). In order for a SCSI disk to be bootable, the
DOS version used must be 3.3 or later. We recommend that you do a
DOS high-level format (using format) on all media partitioned with afdisk
before you use it.
afdisk Command Line Options
There are two afdisk command line options you can use when starting
the program. The syntax of the afdisk command is:
[path]afdisk [/m or /mono] [/?]
You can type command line options in either lowercase or uppercase
letters. Each option is preceded by a forward slash and should be
separated from other options by at least one blank space.
/m or /mono
This option forces afdisk to run in black and white mode. This capability
is provided because afdisk screens do not display properly on some
laptop, monochrome VGA and other displays.
If the /m option does not correct any screen display problem, try
executing the DOS mode bw8O command before running afdisk.
Remember to issue a DOS mode co8O command after you are finished
with the program.
Example: afdisk /mono
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