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From: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Low-level format of hard disk
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Date: 11 Oct 90 03:33:15 GMT
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In article <Ub4ud8q00Uw7A7I1pF@andrew.cmu.edu> jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin) writes:
>I stand corrected

	ABOUT WHAT?
 
		  ... when you do low-level formats, you place a greater deal
>of wear on the actuator and the write solenoid 

	THAN WHEN?

>						(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). 

	THE WRITE HEAD?
 
			When the drive is doing a low-level format, it is not
>only doing a read and/or write 

	...BUT IS ALSO DOING...WHAT?

>				(this is what I was told by Seagate).

	SEEMS LIKE SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA RIDE SERIOUS HERD ON FOLKS THAT 
JUST UP AND "TELL" YOU THINGS...

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

	I'D SHORE LIKE TO OBLIGE, BUT DANGED IF I CAN *TELL*. (AND I'VE DONE
TRIED PURTY HARD TO FIGGER IT OUT).


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