Re: Program to Low Level Format IDE drive

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From: Iskandar Taib
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 14:32

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In article <1992Apr04.220959.1299@crash.cts.com> jimf@pro-woolf.cts.com (Jim Frost) writes:

>Check out SpinRite, low-level format without having to backup the hard
>drive.

It doesn't work with IDE's. Or with SCSI's or anything that does
sector translation. For the older MFM and RLL drives its great!

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