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- From: cstadbt@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Charles Elliott)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: LLF of IDE drives
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 13:52:29 -0000
- Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
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- After my last couple of postings, and people telling me that they can
- successfully recover all IDE drives that have been LLF I am still
- unconvinced. As it has been said, there are some IDE drives that can
- be LLF by the user (especially the older drives) but the newer ones that
- use intelligent interfaces for bad sector mapping etc. as far as
- I am concerned, can not be LLF format without a piece of special software
- and loads of parameters about the drive and/or specialist hardware. It is
- this type of drive that I was talking about when I said the drives were dumped
- as the repair cost was uneconomic. If anyone has LLF a drive such as a
- Quantum LPS52AT or a Seagate ST3120A successfully, I would like to hear
- from them.
-
- In answer to a question a few postings back, the ST3144A is (as far as I
- can remember) in the same family as the ST3120A and therefore cannot be
- *successfully* low level formatted (by the user). If anyone wants to format
- their drive using a BIOS program etc. then they are welcome - just don't
- expect it to work afterwards, or that it is going to be able to be fixed
- without costing more than a new drive.
-
- Charles
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