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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: WANTED: Low Level HD Formatter
Message-ID: <3005@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 91 05:06:34 GMT
References: <gbd77X200Voz4H8kcz@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <gbd77X200Voz4H8kcz@andrew.cmu.edu> gr0z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Phillip Rhoads) writes:

| I have tried to find a public domain low-level formatting program, and
| have not been successful.  Can any one recommend one that would do the
| job?

  The IBM "advanced diagnostics" have one, and WD has one on their BBS
(also posted here) which handles all WD AT bus controllers.
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