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- From: walver@kielo.uta.fi (Ville V. Walveranta)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Low-Level format utility for IDE drives
- Message-ID: <WALVER.93Jan24004038@kielo.uta.fi>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 22:40:38 GMT
- References: <C14oB0.Fps@hfglobe.intel.com> <149@ocdis01.UUCP>
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- Reply-To: walver@uta.fi (Ville Walveranta)
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- In-reply-to: johnboyd@ocdis01.UUCP's message of 21 Jan 93 21:16:19 GMT
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- kumarr@hfglobe.intel.com (Kumar Ranganathan) wrote in comp.os.msdos.misc:
-
- >> Can any low-level format utility be used to format an IDE disk ? Or does
- >> ^^^
-
- johnboyd@ocdis01.UUCP writes in
-
- > No. Many tools are specific. I've accessed some, on Winchester
- > controllers, thru debug (PC platform, obviously). Many commercial disk
- > tools disallow this type access when they recognize an IDE drive. It's a
- > situation with any possible number of solutions.
-
- OnTrack's DiskManager is capable of initializing (low-level
- formatting) an IDE drive. As their commercial version (not the
- one that comes with some hard drives) contains built-in specs
- for hundreds of drives from different manufacturers, I'd say
- it's able to format the IDE drives from different manufacturers
- as well (I haven't upgraded to the latest version, yet, so this
- is just based on a discussion with their sales rep on COMDEX a
- few months ago).
-
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