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- From: paul@tct.com (Paul Levin)
- Subject: Re: How can I low-level format IDE drive ?
- Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:14:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <Bx8y7o.CD3@tct.com>
- References: <1992Nov4.034857.10447@iitmax.iit.edu> <1992Nov4.224927.10000@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1d9secINNna0@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
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- According to pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth):
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- >Ach cut it out already! IDE drives are tricky to format. If you don't
- >know what you're doing, and you don't have all the parms, don't try it.
- >But don't start by thinking it's going to destroy the drive. For all of
- >you people out there who have "destroyed" your IDE drives and are ready
- >to throw them away, feel free to mail them to me; I'll have them working
- >in an hour or so.
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- Will you then keep them or return them ?? Just kidding with you.
- Sorry for using up bandwidth on this, I just couldn't help myself.
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