🚀 go-pugleaf

Due to various reasons I sometimes find the need to low-level format
hard disks. In the old days of MFM, ESDI, etc. that's no big deal but
we all know that 'Thou shalt not low-level format an IDE drive'.

However, I've also discovered that it is possible to format certain
types of drives, either with standard software or special format programs
available from the manufacturer. I'd like to compile a list of these
drives and their formatability. Please email to me. I'll post a summary.

I'll start with the following.

     Drive                        Format program
--------------             -----------------------------
Seagate 3144A              Speedstor, Disk Manager
Maxtor LXT-xxxA            MFORMAT2 - from Maxtor BBS
Maxtor 7213A               cannot be low-level formatted

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