HelpPC 2.10 Quick Reference Utility Copyright 1991 David Jurgens

                         INT 13,5 - Format Disk Track

       AH = 05
       AL = interleave value (XT only)
       CX = track/cylinder number (see below for format)
       DH = head number  (0-15 dec.)
       DL = drive number (0=A:, 1=2nd floppy, 80h=drive 0, 81h=drive 1)
       ES:BX = pointer to block of "track address fields" containing
               four byte fields for each sector to be formatted of the form:

              1 byte  track number
              1 byte  head number           Size      #
              1 byte  sector number         Codes   Bytes
              1 byte  sector size code        0      128
                                              1      256
                                              2      512
                                              3     1024
       on return:
       AH = status  (see INT 13,STATUS)
       CF = 0 if successful
          = 1 if error


       - BIOS disk write attempts should reset the controller on error
       - INT 13,17 should be called to set the DASD type
       - this function is capable of doing great damage if the parameters
         are incorrectly specified; only the drive number is checked
       - initializes disk address fields and data sectors
       - interleave is specified by ordering of track address fields
       - after INT 13 disk format, if the disk is to be used with DOS the
         DOS data structure must be written
       - only the disk number is checked for validity
       - the parameters in CX change depending on the number of cylinders;
         the track/cylinder number is a 10 bit value taken from the 2 high
         order bits of CL and the 8 bits in CH (low order 8 bits of track):

       │F│E│D│C│B│A│9│8│7│6│5-0│  CX (cylinder value 0-1023 dec.)
        │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │  └─────  unused
        │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┴───────     high order 2 bits of track/cylinder
        └─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴─┴──────────  low order 8 bits of track/cyl number

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