SunDown79
Veteran Member
So its me again with another lowlevel thingie.
This we have; one no-real-brand XT board with a Siemens 8088, stock IBM floppy controller wiht 5.25" 360K drive, hercules videocard from Tulip and the WDXT-GEN (option 300) connected to a working (tested before) ST225 harddisk.
My purpose it to test the XT-GEN card by first lowlevel formatting a harddisk, highlevel formatting after that and booting it.
I booted MSDOS 6.x and started debug, ran G=C800:5, produces all the correct questions and type and I just went for non-dynamic and interleave 3.
It starts off formatting but the further along it gets the more seeks I hear and thus it take aaaaaaages. It does step-seek-step-seek etc
What could be causing these seeks ? I was expecting it to just do step-step-step-step about 615 times and done.
Ow I did try with other interleaves but doesn't seem to matter.
This we have; one no-real-brand XT board with a Siemens 8088, stock IBM floppy controller wiht 5.25" 360K drive, hercules videocard from Tulip and the WDXT-GEN (option 300) connected to a working (tested before) ST225 harddisk.
My purpose it to test the XT-GEN card by first lowlevel formatting a harddisk, highlevel formatting after that and booting it.
I booted MSDOS 6.x and started debug, ran G=C800:5, produces all the correct questions and type and I just went for non-dynamic and interleave 3.
It starts off formatting but the further along it gets the more seeks I hear and thus it take aaaaaaages. It does step-seek-step-seek etc
What could be causing these seeks ? I was expecting it to just do step-step-step-step about 615 times and done.
Ow I did try with other interleaves but doesn't seem to matter.