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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Looking a faster low-level format software
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Date: 21 May 91 15:20:36 GMT
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G22QC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:

>Hi,

>  I've tried SpinRite II to low-level format my hard disk, but I
>don't like it because it takes too much time (38 hrs. for a 42MB
						^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (WOW!)
>hard disk).  Can anyone name me a or a few faster low-level format
>software?  I know that those software will still take a lot of
>time.  Thanks in advance.


Assuming that's not a misprint, it works out to about an hour per
megabyte.  That's just crazy.  There must be something wrong somewhere.

I've been getting a lot of practice lately LL formatting old 10 meg drives
and have noticed that when I do it with DEBUG (g=c800:5), it takes a
while (about 10 minutes), but that when I do it with QAPLUS, it seems to
take forever (like about an hour to an hour and a half).  I remain
unconvinced that QAPLUS does any better of a job...
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