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From: gsm@mailgsm.mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson)
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Subject: Re: Re: ST1144A or CP30104
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Date: 1 May 91 04:01:01 GMT
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purkers@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Scott Purkerson) says:
>
>A couple people discussed IDE drives in general to answer my question
>about being able to delete Coherent if I didn't want to use it 
>anymore ;-).  I see now that you can reformat your IDE hard drive
>any way you like using the high-level format, but you must not
>use the low-level format.  

The lack of low level formating software is a myth. There are several packages
that will properly lowlevel format IDE drives.  Many manufacturers now provide
programs that will lowlevel format their IDE drives.

Maxstor provides programs that will lowlevel format their ide drives.

ONTRACK, the software that sometimes comes free with drives, usually segate,
is also available in a GENERIC version. The GENERIC version will lowlevel 
format some IDE drives. 

However, I would not recommend using a lowlevel format on an IDE drive unless
you know that it will work for that specific model.
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