Epson Equity II Product Support Bulletin page 69

format is
The NCL
for drive
heads (4),
(615) and
numbers given
HMD-720-802. It will then ask if
proceeds with the format. If not, it returns you to the top of
the input menu. In any case, when it completes the
you if
may ask
Tell it "no".
.
5. Invoke the
reconstruct
with the physical
"standard"
default interleave
(I've found that an interleave of 6 seems to be pretty optimal
on the I and
table and
are displayed, make sure that any bad locations from the error
list you took off
enter them
than 50) number
and then manually
"F" when you are
warnings and then the actual format.
6. You're now
MS-DOS partition
disk. Typically' you'll use the entire
simplifies
specified
automatically
7. The final
following:
operating system
HDFORMAT to prompt you for a volume name for drive C. HDFORMAT
now performs
floppy from
boot from the C drive.
For those of you familiar with the IBM world, the DEBUG format
is the same. HDFMTALL
level format; HDPART is our version of FDISK,
the same as IBM's FORMAT.
somewhat
number (0), number
reduced write
maximum ECC
here in
you wish
program HDFMTALL.
the bad track
format.
format; press
of 3;
II.) HDFMTALL
give you
the
of the
manually. If the scan turned up
of bad
enter
finished
ready to use
and
matters. Just
as BOOTABLE.
re-boots.
step - HDFORMAT.
HDFORMAT C:
to the
the logical
drive A and
more complicated.
cylinders
of
current (615),
error
data
parentheses
all is
to enter alternate
program
This
table, which we just knocked out
HDFMTALL will
"N". It will then ask if you want the
you can
accept
will then
to edit it. If any bad tracks
chance
drive are
tracks, you might want to delete them
the ones from the
and HDFMTALL
HDPART. This
writes the DOS file structure to the
make sure that the DOS partition is
y o u
When exit
From the
The /S switch transfers the
/s/v.
hard drive.
format. When
press CTRL-ALT-DEL.
is the equivalent
It will
(615),
write precompensation
burst length
would be typical
correct;
track
will allow you to
ask if
or change it.
this
display the
indeed flagged. If not,
an excessive
error
will proceed
program
disk for DOS, so that
HDPART,
A prompt,
The /V switch
finished'
The system
to IBM's
and HDFORMAT is
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ask you
number of
(11). The
for the
if
yes, it
format, it
selections.
y o u
want a
bad track
(more
list. Press
with the
sets up the
the system
enter the
causes
remove the
should
Diagnostics