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From: CAH0@gte.com (Chuck Hoffman)
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Subject: Preformatted disks, flopticals, etc.
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Date: 13 Mar 91 12:53:43 GMT
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padgett%tccslr.dnet@uvs1.orl.mmc.com (Padgett Peterson) writes:

>         Now consider that these drives arrive pre-formatted from the
> manufacturer and many CANNOT be low-level formatted (the same goes for
> the new 20 Mb 3 1/2 flopticals).

I'm not familiar with DOS / x86 systems, and this was a surprise.  Why
can't the disks be formatted?  Is the problem related to software or
hardware, or both?

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