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From: gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: llformat ide doesn't
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.085325.8656@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 08:53:25 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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here is a fun experiment to try at home.

1. llformat your ide drive.
2. check to see if the information on the drive is still there.

when i do this with the ami bios diags thing in my computer or any
of the programs i find in simtel/wustl or on bbss, the info is still
there. only the first few sectors are wiped out.
i have yet to find a program claiming to llformats my drive that removes
any information past the first few sectors.
i have tried perhaps a dozen different programs.

many programs pretend to lowlevel ide drives. probably this is a major cause
of confusion.

gwoho liu.