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From: sysop@umagic.FIDONET.ORG (Keith Ford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: IDE format degradation
Message-ID: <272.27D7467C@umagic.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 8 Mar 91 05:10:07 GMT
Organization: Micro Magic CBCS
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The story seems to be that IDE drives should not be low-level formatted, yet 
some people have without causing noticeable harm.  Be that as it may, how does 
an IDE drive maintain it's format.  Is it not like other formats where there 
are simply magnetic "marks" on the disk indicating sectors and such.  Can 
programs like Spinrite, that refresh the format, be used? 

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