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From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Format "Inhibit" option?
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Date: 9 Nov 88 08:37:43 GMT
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:While I'm asking questions about Format, how about one more? I've heard
:about (but never been exposed to) hard drive formatting on the IBMs. How
:of two or three formats that must be done on the PCLones? Does the
:A2090A's Prep command perform some of this magic? Or could you
:concievably be forced to format your new hard drive on an IBM before the
:AmigaDOS format command could touch it?

	Nah, it's about the same.  For both machines you have to

	(1) Low level format (Amiga Prep/equivalent, IBM FDisk)
	(2) Determine how to partition it (I like the Amiga-way better)
	(3) Format it for the filesystem (Amiga Format, IBM Format)


			-Matt