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From: chao@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Chia-Chi Chao)
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Subject: Re: General purpose Low level formatting programs....
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Date: 15 Jul 89 21:36:07 GMT
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In article <8376@saturn.ucsc.edu> lance@helios.ucsc.edu (Lance Bresee) writes:
>We have a program called SPINWRITE -Spinrite?- which does this
>and much more, I was going to include the manufacturer name,
>but the manual is gone!
>I've seen it advertised though.
>There is another hard disk program called speedstore,
>also missing manual, which does the same things, I think.
>Does anyone out there know more about these programs?

SpinRite from Gibson Research is a low level RE-formatter.  The program
requires the hard disk to be properly low level formatted first.  The price is
about $50, and I highly recommend it.  It checks the hard disk, renews low
level format information, and optimizes interleave factor.  I bought mine from
Dustin Discount Software in CA.  1-800-274-6611.