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From: sean@watcsc.waterloo.edu (Sean Goggin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ST506 - IBM rumor about formating
Keywords: formating ST506
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.081105.18539@watcsc.waterloo.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 90 08:11:05 GMT
Sender: Sean Goggin
Organization: Computer Science Club, University of Waterloo
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You wish to format an ST506. 
The rumor (what I have been told) is that since IBM sells it's 
drives low level formated that You can't format the drive
There is a special controller that uses a increased 
(17something instead for 10something)
current in the first few sectors that premit the special controller to
write the format stuff (drive data?) on a degraded media.
I think the ST506 was sold by ibm, as there first drive for the pc
with a st4xx as a high end version (10Meg).

		This is rumor as far as I am concerned 
		but it may be true and maybe someone can
		comment on it.
					Sean

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