Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!wa3wbu!john
From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Formatting
Message-ID: <453@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 01:12:57 GMT
References: <959@ssc.UUCP>
Organization: WA3WBU, Marysville,PA
Lines: 21
Keywords: format winchester program
Summary: suggest you try Speedstor

In article <959@ssc.UUCP>, fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes:
> I am looking for a program to write the format information on
> a hard disk on an IBM AT-ish system. 

    I would recommend using Speedstor from Storage Dimensions. It is
a partitioning package for large drives (up to 3GB). One of the other
useful services is it low-level formatting routines. It has a menu-driven
facility by where you choose the drive brand/style from a database and
it sets everything up. If the drive wouldnt happen to be on the database,
it has a selection for entering the cyl/head/sec/LZ/etc for whatever you
want. The datbase has everything imaginable in it so its likely it will
have the drive your using. They advertise in most major magazines.

					John

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