Re: How to low level format a hard drive?

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From: Paul Potts
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:54

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In article <Bs5tsH.6xE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
>ron@vicorp.com (Ron Peterson) writes:
...
>Isn't that a SCSI drive?  First, you probably can't use standard
>DOS functions to do anything with it.  Secondly, low-level 
>formatting SCSI disks is usually not a good idea, and rarely
>helpful.  Start with the diagnostics that came with your
>SCSI controller.

It is IDE, and not SCSI, disks that shouldn't be low-level formatted.
(They sure make it difficult too).

-- 
..though I respect that a lot, I'd be fired if that were my job, after 
killing Jason off and countless screaming argonauts... (They Might Be Giants)
Paul R. Potts, Software Designer --- potts@itl.itd.umich.edu <--- me!

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