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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Subject: Re: How to low level format a hard drive?
- References: <1992Jul28.212927.7988@vicorp.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:57:51 GMT
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- ron@vicorp.com (Ron Peterson) writes:
- >Would someone please tell me how to do a low level format on a
- >harddrive under DOS3.3? The machine is some sort of 486 I think
- >(no labels!) which we normally run Unix on but which can be booted
- >as a DOS machine (which no one here knows anything about.)
- >The drive is a Quantum 105S. I think the drive is trashed but
- >want to try a low level format to be sure.
- >ron@vicorp.com or uunet!vicorp!ron
- *----
- Isn't that a SCSI drive? First, you probably can't use standard
- DOS functions to do anything with it. Secondly, low-level
- formatting SCSI disks is usually not a good idea, and rarely
- helpful. Start with the diagnostics that came with your
- SCSI controller.
- --
- Mike Berger
- Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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