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From: mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant)
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Subject: Re: Low Level HD Formatting Software
Message-ID: <1991May28.133950.14789@cbfsb.att.com>
Date: 28 May 91 13:39:50 GMT
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From article <1991May28.021833.5303@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, by stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone):
> 
> ...  While some people advise 
> periodic low-level formatting to freshen up the sector markers, he 
> claims that fading sector marks aren't really the cause of mis-reads;
> misaligned heads are.

Exactly.  I thought the reason for low-level formatting an aging drive
was to realign the tracks with the misaligned heads, because that's
easier and safer than opening up the drive to realign the heads with
the tracks.  True? or fantasy?

							Marty
marty@hoqax.att.com		hoqax!marty
Martin B. Brilliant		(Winnertech Corporation)