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From: bill@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (William Tsai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: General purpose Low level formatting programs....
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Date: 19 Jul 89 19:37:29 GMT
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In article <15482@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> chao@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Chia-Chi Chao) writes:
>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,
>
>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.

I highly recommend this program also.  HOWEVER, there is some catch.
The version I have (the first one) will not work with DOS 4.0.
Second, at work we have several Dell 310 machines with somekind of
hardware disk cache, and because Spinrite is not compatable with
ANY TSR programs nor any disk cache schem, we can not get it to work.
But on ordinary machines it works great.  The author, Steve Gibson,
also writes a column Tech Talk in InfoWorld.

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       Bill Tsai
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