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From: cyliax@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: reformatting 3b2 harddisks
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Date: 14 Jan 88 13:50:38 GMT
Reply-To: cyliax@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Ingo Cyliax)
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Is there any way to reformat 3b2 harddisks ? We have several 3b2's
on campus and have run into some that have had their harddisks
scrambled and would like to reformat them to see if we can make
them work again. Buying new harddisks from ATT is out, since ~$500
for a 32 Meg winchester seems a bit steep, especially when there
is nothing really wrong with the drive.

I have heard that there is a formatting utility that ATT had/has that
would let technicians reformat disks in the field, but we haven't had
any luck in trying to obtain anything like that from ATT.


			Thanks,
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