Faster XXDP booting from ODT

by david 11. April 2011 22:11

I managed to find another Seagate ST-225 for sale on ebay, so I realised that I'm gonna have to boot into XXDP again.  I decided that it might be worth improving the procedure I worked out here.  So all I've done is remove leading zeros from the values being input.  But it means that I can boot into the disk XXDP formatter in about one hour.  The revised (smaller) file to send in ODT mode is here.  So let's see if that second winchester disk works...

About the author

David

I'm a C# developer having worked with .Net since it was in beta.  Before that I mainly worked in C and C++.  I have been developing commercial software for more than 20 years.  I also mess around with microprocesors, but that's just for fun.  I live near Cambridge, England and at the moment I'm contracted to one of the departments at Cambridge University.

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