Western Digital WD1007A-WAH User Manual page 13

mode the controller will format the drive at the given SPT value as long as the drive is
configured to reflect the SPT value. The WD1007A BIOS will read the drive parameters
from the drive in this mode. This allows a low-level format with no skew, no alternate
sector, and a 1:1 interleave. The only exception to this is if the drive is configured to 36
SPT; this mode uses a 2:1 interleave.
5. If using a 5 Mbit per second ESDI drive, disable the l007A translation feature (install
jumper W14). This type of ESDI drive is always configured at 17 SPT.
4.3 WDFMT
Western Digital provides a low-level format utility that allows you to prepare the drive
for use by the system. The program includes routines for low-level formatting, disk
verify, surface analysis and bad track entry. When using the 1007A board, use a 1:1
interleave, a skew of 2, and format the drive at 35 SPT with an alternate sector. WDFMT
2.10 presents the following display:
Format disk
Verify disk
Bad sector
entry
Surface test
Quit
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AT Disk Format Utility
Rev. 2.10
Current drive parameters are:
Drive (0/1)
Cylinders
Heads
Sectors
Interleave
Precomp
Skew
Alt Sector
ENTER NEW CHOICE
CAUTION this will destroy all data on drive!
CAUTION this will destroy all data on drive!
: 0
: 615
: 4
: 17
: 3
: 306
: 0
: No