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From: stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone)
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Subject: Re: Low Level HD Formatting Software
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Date: 25 May 91 13:15:42 GMT
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In article <1991May22.172536.10283@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> L.Chung@ee.surrey.ac.uk (L N Chung) writes:
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>Which hard disk formatting program can do a low level format on IDE drives?
>Which one will hand SCSI and ESDI drives ?

They say you can't low-level format IDE drives yourself.  The "Letters" 
in the latest Byte magazine discusses why.

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