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- From: mjh@dmu.ac.uk (Mike Howarth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Need Low level format info for Plus IDE
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.125508.22133@dmu.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 12:55:08 GMT
- References: <1992Dec09.210643.108838@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1g6f18INNff5@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1992Dec10.041219.1431@ee.ubc.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec10.041219.1431@ee.ubc.ca> jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
- >
- >Does anyone know how to low level format a Plus IDE hard disk?
- >(80AT). I know some IDE drives have secret ways of doing low level formats,
- >and I hope this is one. It probably isn't worth sending back fto the maker
- >for a low level f
- >
- Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that formatiing an IDE drive
- removed information that the controller used, and that the only way was to
- use the manufacturer's utilities rather any 'marketable' products, and I
- presume those utilities to be as common as Rocking Horse Droppings - have
- I got the right tack or am I thinking of another drive type ??
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