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>In article <3pgfa4$hhj@beta.inc.net> obrien@it.uwp.edu (James Obrien) writes:

>> Low level format of an ide drive is the best possible way to invest in a
>> new drive.  Low level formatting an ide drive through you bios will erase
>> the drive's physical geometry by overwriting it with the logical geometry
>> the bios uses to translate it.  You may get the drive to work temporarily
>> (seldom happens) but it will most likely not work at all.

>It also erases the sector defect table, so even if you did reconstruct the
>addressing, you'd have a drive with unknown bad sectors and no way to mark
>them as non-useable until after disaster hit.  It'd be like driving down a
>dirt road in the dark with no headlights on.  You find the holes by falling
>into them.

Well ... it then usually behaves just like an old MFM one.

You have to use a utility like Nortons Calibrate with pattern test, and 
everything goes OK. (as I did). Then you have Clusters marked bad by DOS.

btw, does anyone have the ftp-adress of CONNER ?
If so, please reply to   e9125356@stud1.tuwien.ac.at 
Thanks in avance !

Read U, Richard.