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From: jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Low-level format of hard disk
Message-ID: <Ub4ud8q00Uw7A7I1pF@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 90 23:10:00 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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I stand corrected ... when you do low-level formats, you place a greater deal
of wear on the actuator and the write solenoid (that was what I was told it is
called ... the thing that changes its magnetic field so that it causes a change
on the disk platters).  When the drive is doing a low-level format, it is not
only doing a read and/or write (this is what I was told by Seagate).

Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong again.

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