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From: arwall@athena.mit.edu (Anders R Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard disk problem
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Date: 31 Aug 88 01:25:51 GMT
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In-reply-to: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)

In article <12193@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, bobmon@iuvax (RAMontante) writes:
>A low-level format will search for and avoid bad areas on the hard
>disk.  The value of the manufacturer's list is that it was generated by
>rigorous testing that may have caught defects the formatter would
>miss.  It may also save some time, since the formatter needn't test
>those areas.

Can somebody verify this?  It's been intimated to me by a friend in
the business that the 'rigorous' testing is nothing more than a
low-level format.

anders
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