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- From: cstadbt@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr C A Elliott)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: LLF of IDE
- Date: 5 Nov 1992 16:20:40 -0000
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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- Although the drives are dumped, as far as I am aware there is no physical
- damage to the media: having said that, the drives probably can be recovered
- by the factory by using the required realigning software. Unfortunately, in
- the current technology, it is cheaper to buy a new drive from Seagate than
- it is to get the damaged one set up again. I hasten to add that most of the
- drives were damaged by people from the on-site maintenance company that
- were supposed to go out and repair the drives 8-).
-
- When I LLF a Western Digital drive there were two stages to the format. The
- first was to type in the drive parameters (cylinders, heads, etc.) and other
- parameters that are never normally seen, but are needed by the controller
- of the drive (these were all supplied by WD). After a short while, the
- drive was LLF in the normal sense of the word, and then partitioning etc.
-
- It is true that many drives will act like they have been LLF but have not.
- Drives will verify the media, and then report a finished command when
- they are issued with a command to LLF. Of course, IDE drives with either
- an XT interface or a switchable interface (such as the Seagate ST351A/X) can
- be low level formatted in XT mode but not in AT mode.
-
- If anyone has the Seagate low level formatting program, I like to hear from
- them (this is not the same as Disk Manager by Ontrak, which is for RLL and MFM
- drives)
-
- Charles
-
- cstadbt@warwick.ac.uk
-
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: LLF of IDE
- Followup-To: Spinrite II on IDE drives
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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-
- Although the drives are dumped, as far as I am aware there is no physical
- damage to the media: having said that, the drives probably can be recovered
- by the factory by using the required realigning software. Unfortunately, in
- the current technology, it is cheaper to buy a new drive from Seagate than
- it is to get the damaged one set up again. I hasten to add that most of the
- drives were damaged by people from the on-site maintenance company that
- were supposed to go out and repair the drives 8-).
-
- When I LLF a Western Digital drive there were two stages to the format. The
- first was to type in the drive parameters (cylinders, heads, etc.) and other
- parameters that are never normally seen, but are needed by the controller
- of the drive (these were all supplied by WD). After a short while, the
- drive was LLF in the normal sense of the word, and then partitioning etc.
-
- It is true that many drives will act like they have been LLF but have not.
- Drives will verify the media, and then report a finished command when
- they are issued with a command to LLF. Of course, IDE drives with either
- an XT interface or a switchable interface (such as the Seagate ST351A/X) can
- be low level formatted in XT mode but not in AT mode.
-
- If anyone has the Seagate low level formatting program, I like to hear from
- them (this is not the same as Disk Manager by Ontrak, which is for RLL and MFM
- drives)
-
- Charles
-
- cstadbt@warwick.ac.uk
-
-
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-