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In article <4idu3j$omt@nethost.whanganui.ac.nz>,
   sroberts@whanganui.ac.nz, I wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>Can anyone help me recover a Conner CP30104H IDE Hard Drive from a low level 
>format?
<snip>

Thankyou to everyone that replied to my posting to this newsgroup.  FDISK was 
all that was needed to recover this disk drive.  The data was intentionally 
wiped from the drive so I wasn't concerned about losing it.

For anyone following this thread, I have just re-read a magazine article that 
states, with regard to IDE drives:-  "In addition, IDE drives usually operate 
at a 1:1 interleave.  You cannot change interleave, perform a low-level 
format, or run low-level disc utilities."  (extract from Computer Bits column, 
Silicon Chip, October 1992.)

Caution, there is still some doubt as to whether the foregoing applies to all 
IDE drives (In my mind, at least. :-)).

Finally, apologies for the extremely short lines in the original article.  I 
don't know what happened to cause that.

Cheers,

Shane.



In,In.mbx,S,N
Trash,Trash.mbx,S,U
Out,Out.mbx,S,N