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From: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: RE : Low-level format of hard disk
Message-ID: <15067@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 11 Oct 90 12:25:23 GMT
References: <3915.2711b5f6@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Reply-To: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <3915.2711b5f6@cc.curtin.edu.au> sschnellm@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> 
> 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...)


As most netters know this is not true!  Yes most HD are formatted by the
manufacturer (some by dealers) before shipping, but it is possible to format
(low-level or DOS format) a drive.  And yes most AT interfaced IDE drives do 
not require a LL but almost all ST506 interfaced drives can be LL either by
a controller BIOS (Adaptecs...) or by LL programs (Spin Rite, Disk Manager...).
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Mike Brim			     |	Commodore Electronics Limited
PC Analyst - System Evaluation Group | 	West Chester, PA 19380
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