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From: Marcus Bainbridge
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 1994 11:45

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John Beardmore wrote:
[spinrite, ontrack]

> Are they safe on IDE drives BTW ?

They should have no effect.  Most IDE drives ignore idle requests for such
nastiness as reformatting...

Unless you have an old Miniscribe, of course :)

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Marcus Bainbridge | marcus@guitar.demon.co.uk

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