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From: myers@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU (Scott R Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Low Level Hard Disk Format
Message-ID: <371@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Sat, 9-May-87 08:04:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: andromed.371
Posted: Sat May  9 08:04:02 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 03:06:24 EDT
References: <2550@dalcs.UUCP> <277@fornax.uucp>
Reply-To: myers@andromeda.UUCP (Scott R Myers)
Organization: Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
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In article <277@fornax.uucp> chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman) writes:
> I've encountered a soft error on my hard disk, and I'm looking for some software
> to perform a low-level format (also, I'd like to experiment with interleave).
> 
> I have a XEBEC controller (seagate HD); the controller only has 2k rom, so
> I really don't think there's format software on-board.
> 
> Could anyone recommend any public domain software for permorming a low level
> hard disk format?
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> dalegass@dalcs.uucp

IBM has a special diagnostics disk for technicians and it includes low level
formatting...  I've used it once to reformat a HD formatted by Novell Netware
and it worked fine...  I couldn't tell you how to get a copy though...  Also
It does some fair diagnostics of HD...

Scott R. Myers


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