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- From: sacke@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeff Hanna)
- Subject: Re: A1200 HD question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.162726.15119@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1993Jan9.191116.20831@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan10.171708.8502@medsys.rn.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 16:27:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan10.171708.8502@medsys.rn.com> wendell@medsys.rn.com (Wendell Dingus) writes:
- >ccb8m@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Charles C. Bundy) writes:
- >
- >>For all you Amiga "guru's" :)
- >
- >>I've had my 1200HD/80 for a week and a half. The problem is this :)
- >>OK me thinks, let us do a low level format! Well I tried and tried AND
- >>tried, but it never worked! Nothing was ever deleted! No Low level format
- >>was ever done! Before I yell at C= or my dealer, I thought I'd see if
- >>I was doing anything wrong.
- Well, be happy that it did not do a low level format. Do not ever attempt
- to do a low level format on an IDE (AT) drive--it will ruin it. IDE drives
- are different from SCSI drives and do not need to be low level formatted.
- It sounds like C= disabled that function in their scsi lookalike driver
- for ide drives, and I would like to thank them for that.
-
- Jeff Hanna
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