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Article #507Re: Low Level Format of IDE - bad idea?
From: Helen T. Redlus
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 00:00
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Hi Steve, Technically your are correct - you should not low level format an IDE drive. In fact, if you are lucky enough to receive a flyer packaged with your IDE hard drive it will generally tell you DO NOT LOW LEVEL FORMAT...unless you use our program "filename". Unfortunately, with hard drives that I've purchased recently you are lucky if you get any documentation with it at all. Helen smann@rahul.net (Steve Mann in San Jose, CA) wrote: >Then, technically, I was correct - low-level formatting an IDE is a bad >thing. I was unaware that the manufacturers had responded with a >user-available remedy. > >Thanks for the update. > >-- >Stephen Mann <smann@rahul.net>
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