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From: steveh@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Steven Howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: The Low Level Format And IDE's
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Date: 3 Apr 91 06:14:51 GMT
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	I Have just installed a new version of dos onto my new VLSI-G5
system. However the term "format" and "low level format" is now becomming a
hazey one.

	I have in CMOS set up a diagnostic program that sets up some of the hard
disk disk. Is this a low level format.

Is the format program under dos a low level format, and if not, then what 
program is.


anyone out there  keen to solve this one for me.


thanks in advance.


steve h