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- Subject: Re: How can I low-level format IDE drive ?
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 11:09:39 GMT
- References: <1992Nov1.194255.8799@menudo.uh.edu> <sauron.720737823@femto.engr.mun.ca> <1d4brjINNb6c@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <92308.035019DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> <tooraj.720955806@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> <1992Nov5.175934.3269@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- In article <GJAMES.174@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA> GJAMES@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (GJames) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov5.175934.3269@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
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- >>In <tooraj.720955806@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Tooraj Enayati) writes:
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- >>><DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
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- >>>>In article <1d4brjINNb6c@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, pauls@css.itd.umich.edu
- >>>>(Paul Southworth) says:
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- >>>>>In article <sauron.720737823@femto.engr.mun.ca> sauron@femto.engr.mun.ca
- >>>>>(Patrick Ryan) writes:
- >>>>>>wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin) writes:
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- >I once had a virus in a partition table that just wouldnt go away. I tried
- >dos format, fdisk, I even used norton sector edit to zero out the fat table.
- >The virus was still there.
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- >I called our dealer and told him i was going to ll the drive and since it
- >was under warranty, if it was made useless I would return it. He gave me the
- >OK so I was covered.
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- >The way I LL'ed the drive was to use the disk utilities built into the
- >machines BIOS. I set the disk type to 47 and entered the heads, cylinder
- >etc. to the native (or was it translation, I cant remember) mode settings
- >and ran the BIOS LL routine. Then I ran fdisk and did a dos format.
- >Everything has worked fine ever since.
- >Has anybody else tried this method?
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- I LL formatted my Fujitsu 2616ET (102Mb) drive using the AMI bios setup
- program. I left all the interleave settings to the bios setup (it attempts
- to work out the best interleave). The drive seems to still work fine...
- except it seems to be a little slow in data transfer (Coretest reports
- 630Kb/s or so). Does anyone know whether LL formatting the drive could have
- slowed it down, does anyone have a 2616ET that achieves a higher transfer
- rate, and if I have slowed the drive down, can I do anything about it now?
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- I have a standard IDE (ISA) card and a 386/33.
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- Stephen Baxter
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- (U9118802 @ cpc780.uea.ac.uk (JANET) )
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