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- From: potts@itl.itd.umich.edu (Paul Potts)
- Subject: Re: How to low level format a hard drive?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.195434.3180@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Usenet Owner)
- Organization: Instructional Technology Laboratory, University of Michigan
- References: <1992Jul28.212927.7988@vicorp.com> <Bs5tsH.6xE@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:54:34 GMT
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- In article <Bs5tsH.6xE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
- >ron@vicorp.com (Ron Peterson) writes:
- ...
- >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.
-
- It is IDE, and not SCSI, disks that shouldn't be low-level formatted.
- (They sure make it difficult too).
-
- --
- ..though I respect that a lot, I'd be fired if that were my job, after
- killing Jason off and countless screaming argonauts... (They Might Be Giants)
- Paul R. Potts, Software Designer --- potts@itl.itd.umich.edu <--- me!
-