Hard Disk Format; Function Description - Toshiba T3300SL Maintenance Manual

3.16 Hard Disk Format

This command executes the hard disk formatting command. There are two types of hard disk
formatting:
Low level (physical) formatting
MS-DOS (logical) formatting
This Hard Disk Format function performs a low level format of the hard disk and executes the
following hard disk formats and check:
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 function is executed.
Before executing the function, transfer the contents of the hard disk onto a floppy disk(s).
This can be done with the Toshiba MS-DOS BACKUP command. See the Toshiba MS-DOS
Manual for details.

3.16.1 Function Description

1. All track FORMAT
This option performs a low level format of all the tracks on the hard disk as shown in Table
3-6 below.
NOTE: Before executing the All track FORMAT option, execute the Bad track CHECK
option to display a list of bad tracks on the HDD.
Sector sequences
Cylinders
Heads
Sectors
Sector length (bps)
Table 3-6 Hard disk formatting sequence
Item
80MB
0 to 1,096
1 to 39
Description
120MB
1 1
0 to 1,154
0 to 3 0 to 3
1 to 56
512 512
3-37