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From: sguerke@brahms.udel.edu (Stephen Guerke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: IDE Drives - low level format?
Keywords: HD, IDE, format
Message-ID: <21399@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 15 May 91 14:38:10 GMT
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Organization: University of Delaware
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I'm sure this has been asked before....but...
One of our faculty members has an IDE drive that is giving him bad
sector readings.  He is going to run Norton 5.0 Disk Doctor on it to
mark the bad sectors, however the Norton Calibrate program, which sets
the interleave and will do a low level format, will not work on an IDE
drive.  Is there a low level format program available, that will work
on and IDE?  Any suggestions and recommendations will be gratefully
appreciated. ( I don't know the brand or model of the drive, if that
is necessary info I can get it and post.)

Thanks 

Steve


 




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