Re: low-level format of IBM XT 10 Meg HD

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From: David Eugene Dwiggins
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1991 16:26

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I was under the opinion that only RLL and above hard drives have formatting
programs built into ROM.

All the MFM controllers (except the ones that translate sectors) I've ever
seen required a low-level formatting program on disk.
(LLFORMAT.COM, etc.)

David

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From: dd2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Eugene Dwiggins)
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Subject: Re: low-level format of IBM XT 10 Meg HD
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Date: 7 Mar 91 16:26:43 GMT
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