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Section 6
Hard Disk Utility
AMIBIOS includes three hard disk utilities:
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Hard Disk Format
Performs a low level format of the hard
drive(s). Read the system or hard disk
drive documentation to find out if the
hard disk is preformatted.
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Auto Interleave
Determines the optimum interleave
factor and then performs a low level
format of the hard disk drive.
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Media Analysis
Analyzes each hard disk drive track to
determine whether it is usable. The
track is labeled bad if unusable.
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The hard disk utility error messages are described on page 112.
These routines work on drives that use the MFM, RLL, ARLL, or ESDI data recording techniques.
They do not work on IDE or SCSI Disk Drives.
Warning
AMIBIOS Hard Disk Utilities destroy all hard disk data. Back up the data on
the hard disk before running this utility.