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FIXED DISK TESTS
The Fixed Disk Test menu
contains routines for drive selection, setting interleave
(MFM and RLL drives), determining parameters (MFM and RLL
drives), mapping bad sectors manually, formatting, and diagnostic
tests for butterfly seek, read, write, safe write and controller
tests.
The Fixed Disk Selected
window will display the drive type set in CMOS, the type of
drive (MFM, RLL, IDE/SATA, ESDI, and SCSI), the BIOS parameters
(the parameters used by the interrupt 13 functions), the Native
settings (the parameters stored on the drive), and the BIOS
settings (the parameters used by the BIOS on controller card
for the drive). IDE/SATA drives will also display information
specific to IDE/SATA drives.
Screen – Fixed
Disk Drive Selection
Drive Select (0 through 6) – The Drive
Select option will allow the selection of Fixed disk 0 through
6. It may be necessary to load a software driver in order
to gain access to the drives beyond the first two.
Set Interleave (MFM/RLL)
– The Set Interleave option will highlight the Interleave
area in the Fixed Disk Selected window. Press the number keys
to change the interleave. Press Enter to exit out of Set Interleave
option. Low-level format the drive to change the interleave.
If the interleave for an MFM or RLL drive is set incorrectly
the drive will operate at a reduced speed.
NOTE: Formatting a drive
to change the interleave will destroy all data on the drive.
IDE/SATA drives always have an interleave of 1. ESDI and SCSI
are set through the controller BIOS.
Bad Sector Map (MFM/RLL/IDE/SATA)
- The Bad Sector Map window will allow the mapping of bad
sectors. Each sector to be mapped must be entered individually.
The Read Test has an automatic mapping feature. Most IDE/SATA
drives will automatically map out bad sectors during a low-level
format. There will be instances where the bad sectors will
have to be manually mapped out.
A low-level format
must be performed to map out bad sectors that were entered
into the Bad Sector Map.
Press Left and Right cursor keys to select Cylinder, Sector,
Head and BFI (automatically calculated by Micro-scope).
Press the number keys to set Cylinder, Sector,
Head and BFI in bad sector map. Press Up and Down keys to
select entry (1, 2, 3, etc.).
FORMAT FIXED
DISK
Screen
– Format Fixed Disk
Format Fixed Disk – The Format Fixed Disk option
will run a specific routine to low level format each of the
5 drive types (MFM, RLL, ESDI, SCSI and IDE/SATA drives).
Format Entire – The
Format Entire Disk option will low level format the entire
hard disk for MFM, RLL and IDE/SATA drives. The Micro-Scope
will run the proper routine for each drive type. A warning
message will be displayed. Press Y (Yes) to low-level format
and destroy selected data on the hard disk. Press any other
key to cancel operation.
Format Partial – The
Format Partial Disk option will low-level format the selected
area on MFM, RLL and IDE/SATA drives. Use the number keys
to select Start Cylinder, End Cylinder, Start Head and End
Head. Press Enter to execute. A warning message will be displayed.
Press Y (Yes) to low-level format selected area and destroy
selected data. Press any other key to cancel the operation.
Warning: All of the
format options are destructive. No data will remain on a drive,
which is low-level formatted.
Use Controller BIOS –
Use Controller BIOS option will jump to the setup/low-level
format routine located on the BIOS on the controller adapter
card for ESDI and SCSI drives. Enter the Segment Address and
Offset Address for the location of the jump byte. Go to Section
IV, Memory Examine, ESDI/SCSI Setup Routine Segment and Offset
to find segment and offset address. Use the character and
number keys to set segment and offset. Press Enter to execute.
The BIOS setup low-level format routine will now be displayed.
Note:
Not all ESDI and SCSI controllers have a setup and low-level
format routine to access. Future Domain SCSI controllers do
not have a controller setup/format routine. Use the format
entire option for Future Domain SCSI controller cards.
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