Re: Low Level Formatting an IDE Drive ?

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From: John Beardmore
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 00:00

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In article <821216852snz@inf-eden.demon.co.uk>, Chris Kennington
<cjk@inf-eden.demon.co.uk> writes
>    The computers ran very happily with the drives aftewards.  before,
>they would read the data, sometimes write, never boot, and came
>completely unstuck with Norton Speedisk.

Come to think of it, which version of Norton were you using ?  I found
that 6 only worked with MFM drives. When I upgraded to v8, it also
worked with IDE and SCSI devices.

Calibrat seemed to be pretty good at sorting out knackered old IDE
drives.

-- 
John Beardmore

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