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Article #3003Re: Disk Manager and MSDOS 5.0
From: 1h1a0m
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 14:28
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 14:28
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In article <GINSBURG.91Jun19164100@rio.cme.nist.gov>, ginsburg@cme.nist.gov (Dylan Ginsburg) writes: > Why should the drive be low level formatted every 6 months? > > Doug Perhaps to freshen up the track info which, unlike when writing a new file to disk, is not written over old track info. I suppose the read/write heads become misaligned with time, just a like a car goes out of tune. Doing a low level format sets everything back to zero, as if you had bought a new HD. Tony -- -- USmail: Antonio Montes, 4008 Learned Hall, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 E-mail: 1h1a0m@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, 1h1a0m@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913) 864-3001
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