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From: mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Low Level Format on a Miniscribe 3650
Message-ID: <417@tardis.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 25 Dec 87 01:30:47 GMT
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Reply-To: mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak)
Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor
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Keywords: fdisk prep miniscribe 3650 help!

I recently bought a MiniScribe 3650, a 40M hard drive.  I had it set
up with a Western Digitial Control and an external power supply box.
When I ran FDISK, it said it couldn't read or write to the drive.  I
fooled around with it for a bit and then I came across a formatter
program called Prep which comes with Zenith machines.  I 'Prep'ed the
drive and then FDISK recognized it.  Unfortunately, Prep made it into
a 20 M drive.  Is there a generic prep program I can use where I tell
it about cylinders, tracks, etc and it will format the drive to
the appropriate size?  I would appreciate any help you can give.

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