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Hello there,
	
	I have a question concerning harddirve installation on a PC. I
particularly have a RLL ST-238R drive 32Mbyte capacity supported by an 
Adaptec Controller RLL 2,7. My questions are however general:

1. When you connect a hard drive on a a PC (386SX especially) do you need to
always low-level format the drive? What if the drive is already formatted and
has data? Or are there any hard drive models or drive controllers that you 
definetely need to low-level format a drive that you connect to it?
To me it seems that low-level formatting should not be a requirement.

2. After low-level formatting a drive do we always need to partiion the drive
whehter or not we create logical dirves? In other words, if I do not want to
divide the drive into more than one drive do I still need to partition the
drive into 1 drive using fdisk?

3. If low-level formatting and partitioning are not needed, after physically
connecting the drive to the controller card and configuring the CMOS setup,
i.e. telling the CMOS setup that you have a drive installed with the correct
number of cylinders, heads etc should you expect to get a "C>" prompt if you
boot up from floppy say and you type c: at the A> prompt? If the drive is
unformatted then by doing high level formating using the 
"A>format c: /s" would be sufficient? 

	I would appreciate any relevant response.

Thanks, Chris

E-mail Address: rsl11@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu