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From: hashemi@leadsv.UUCP (Rahmat O. Hashemi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard drive/Controller
Message-ID: <6607@leadsv.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 17:36:51 GMT
References: <14348@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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In article <14348@watdragon.waterloo.edu> mdharding@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Matthew D. Harding) writes:
>So what's next? How can I tell if it is a WD controller? Or what controller at
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Look for the chip set on the controller, see if it had WDxxxx or WDCxxxx on it.


>all? Is there a way I can low-level format without using debug (ow what is the
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Some disk manager utilities let you do low_level format.

>correct debug command)? Am I neck-deep in sh*t for the rest of my life?
No, don't feel despared. Where there is a problem, there is a solution(may be
the wrong solution, but nontheless, a solution :-) ).