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- From: chairman@board8.uucp (The Chairman)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 hard drive: SCSI or IDE?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.144956.4754@board8.uucp>
- Organization: board8
- References: <xgY-wm+@engin.umich.edu> <713121754snx@bai.baylis.COM> <1992Aug7.195726.19716@njitgw.njit.edu> <15vt2kINN566@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 14:49:56 GMT
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- shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
-
- (* stuff deleted...*)
-
- >I have a Conner 120 Meg IDE drive and I used Disk Manager v3.5 (which
- >by the way, came w/ my Seagate MFM drive a long time ago) to low-level
- >format the drive. I've done this quite a few times, and OS/2 hasn't
- >given me any problems yet. I guess this is what you meant by the
- >custom utility...
-
- >BTW: why is there so much discussion about NOT low-level formatting
- > IDE drives? I'm sure it does do some good... and does not
- > harm the drive, otherwise, I better watch out....
-
- > David Shy
- > shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu
- When I bought my first IDE drive (from FRY's electronics in Sunnyvale,
- Ca) I was told to low level format by 2 people. Nothing went wrong and the
- drive worked great. It worked so great that I decided to buy another
- (same drive - western digital 2 1/2" 60 meg). THAT's when the trouble began.
- Suddenly I couldn't get either drive to work. Told the people at Fry's
- and they told me that I shouldn't low level format ide drives (where did
- I get THAT idea?). To make a really long story short - I burned out 3
- controllers and 3 drives. Frys couldn't make anything work and replaced
- the whole system...
-
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