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From: vwp@cbnewsk.att.com (mark.a.skala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE Drives - low level format?
Keywords: HD, IDE, format
Message-ID: <1991May17.165113.1022@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 17 May 91 16:51:13 GMT
References: <21399@brahms.udel.edu> <1500@balrog.ctron.com> <1991May16.153805.26933@pensoft.uucp>
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>>>         Is there a low level format program available, that will work
>>> on and IDE? 
>
>USE SPINRITE!  it will solve your problem.
>
>-- 
>Lance Bledsoe                       Off:    (512) 343-1111                 
>Pencom Software, Inc.               Fax     (512) 343-9650                 
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Wrong.  I too have been looking for something like this.

Mark A. Skala        "Sleep is so boring I can hardly stay awake through it."
vwp@cbnewsk.att.com
508-960-4208 (work)