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From: dd2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Eugene Dwiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: low-level format of IBM XT 10 Meg HD
Message-ID: <4bpab3G00WCSRfv2wK@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 91 16:26:43 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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I was under the opinion that only RLL and above hard drives have formatting
programs built into ROM.

All the MFM controllers (except the ones that translate sectors) I've ever
seen required a low-level formatting program on disk.
(LLFORMAT.COM, etc.)

David