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- From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Spinrite II on IDE drives
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 15:09:38 GMT
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- In article <1datogINNnkt@clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk> cstadbt@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr C A Elliott) writes:
- >Many BIOS (especially AMI) will low level format an IDE drive (it will
- >also put hundreds of errors on it and kill it), but the only real way
- >to do it is to use the software that manufacturers supply. Despite working
- >for a company that used thousands of Seagate drives a day, Seagate would
- >still not let us have a copy of the software, although I have used the
- >Western Digital software. When drives would come back for repair, many
- >had been low levelled using various programs, and all were dumped and had
- >to be replaced with new drives.
-
- Funny that, when I called Seagate regarding a 1239A that had been mistakenly
- low-levelled by the install program of 386BSD 0.0 (which has been fixed, BTW)
- the tech person gave me information on the drive that permitted me to
- low-level it again with Disk Manager in manual mode and the drive was completely
- restored.
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