Toshiba Libretto 50CT, User Manual

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3 Tests and Diagnostics 3.18 Hard Disk Format
Libretto 50CT/70CT Maintenance Manual 3-39
The following selections also display at the bottom of the screen, in succession:
Drive number select (1:#1,2:#2) ?
(a) Select a drive number and press Enter . The following message displays:
Interleave number (1/1 ~ 8) ?
(b) Select an interleave number, 1 ~ 8 and press Enter . Pressing only Enter
selects 1.
(c) Bad track register
Next, the Bad Track register prompt displays as shown below. Enter the
cylinder and head numbers of bad tracks and press
Enter . Note that if there
are no bad tracks, pressing Enter alone is the same as executing All Track
Format described in item (d) below.
[ WARNING : Current DISK data will be
completely destroyed ]
Press Bad cylinder number (dddd)] key ?
Press Bad head number (dd)] key ?
Enter the cylinder and head number in the format above by decimal notation.
Repeat for each bad track you want to format.
After entering the bad tracks, press Enter to execute the format.
(d) All track format
All tracks are formatted as good tracks except those registered as bad tracks in
item (c) above or those identified as bad tracks in track verification described
in item (e) below.
(e) Track verification
A check is made of all tracks and if an ECC error, ECC correctable data error
or record-not-found error is detected at a track, that track is automatically
formatted as a bad track.