🚀 go-pugleaf

What you are describing is not Low Level Formatting.  It is usually
referred to as "drive translation".

				Scott Miller

Chris Kennington <cjk@inf-eden.demon.co.uk> writes:

>Re LLF on IDE.

>    Oh dear, this is very technical.

>    I had to LLF a bunch of second-hand drives last summer; Conners,
>Seagates and others.  The reason was to REDUCE their sizes because
>they were going in old 286s (for a charity) which did not have a
>user-specifiable drive-type.  (I was fitting IDEs in place of MFMs,
>using standard IDE HDC cards.)  I never had any trouble except with
>one 105Mb Seagate which was VERY slow afterwards.

>    I did it all by setting the drive-type in the BIOS setup, then
>starting the prgram @ C800 (or whatever) + 5.  The program was
>certainly not null!

>    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.

>    But I was NOT attempting to reclaim bad sectors!  These carried
>through from before to after.  What's the problem with a few bad
>sectors, if their number is not increasing?

>                                    Chris K.
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