Re: Low level format of Hitachi drive

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From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun Sep 29 2002 - 21:52:07 EDT

NOT TRUE
Learn the facts before you give advise
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From: "Michael She" <michael.she_at_binaryio.com>
To: <thinkPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: Low level format of Hitachi drive

> At 01:28 PM 9/28/2002 -0700, gwydion you wrote:
> >Anyone know how to do a low-level format of a Hitachi 12G drive (IBM
> >FRU:09N0935)? I've tried the IBM utility disk, and it locks up if I try
> >to start a low level format.
> >
> >The drive has some bad sectors. I've done a Norton disk doctor scan, and
> >a high level format, but would like to do a low level format.
> >
> >I'm using a T20 w/ Win2k. I used the IBM utility disk with a Win98 boot
> >disk.
>
>
> If the IBM utility can't do a low level format... the drive might be bad.
>
> If you're seeing bad sectors, I would ditch the drive as fast as possible.
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