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From: sschnellm@cc.curtin.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: RE : Low-level format of hard disk
Message-ID: <3915.2711b5f6@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Date: 9 Oct 90 03:35:18 GMT
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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If the machine is an AT, the disk will have been formatted by the 
manufacturer before shipping. It is not recommended that you re-format
a hard disk in an AY (quite difficult too...)