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From: metla_jpm@cc.helsinki.fi (JP M{kel{)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Spinrite II and slow low-level format
Message-ID: <1991May27.110057.1@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 27 May 91 09:00:57 GMT
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In article <1991May22.173915.4052@news.larc.nasa.gov>,
jcburt@ipsun.larc.nasa.gov (John Burton) writes:
                                                
> Formatting a 40 meg disk should NOT take 38 hours regardless of the 
> software you're using...if it does, I'd begin to suspect a problem
> with the disk or controller...
>                                               
The 'problem' is that Spinrite II formats the hard disk WITHOUT erasing 
the data in it; That product is for maintaining the disk and changing the
interleave, not for the initial formatting, which is, as you state, supposed
to be MUCH faster.
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