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From: kleonard@gvlv1.gvl.unisys.com (Ken Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Conner IDE drives
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Date: 29 Aug 90 12:21:03 GMT
References: <1990Aug11.040610.2366@agate.berkeley.edu> <11724@ogicse.ogi.edu>
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In article <11724@ogicse.ogi.edu> buchholz@ese3.ogi.edu (Don Buchholz) writes:
*
* ...
* Conner's disks, on the other hand, have a "proprietary" (a 4-letter word) for-
* matting scheme that requires one to send the disk back to Conner for a new
* format.  
* 
* Personally, I think that Conner's policy sucks!  In the four years that I have
* been working here, I've managed to salvage 5+ disk drives by simply performing
* a low-level format on them. I see no reason that I should have to send a drive
* to the factory for a format!
* 
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sooooo......
How _DID_ you lay down a new ll-format on the Conner drives???
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regardz,
Ken