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From: dave@odyssey.ucc.ie (David B. O'Byrne)
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Subject: what is the best way to low level format an IDE drive ?
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Hi I just was given a 200 meg Seagate Model ST 1239A drive (it also has
SWIFT Model 94354-230 on it). I was told its dead, but if I can recover whats on it its mine. Its DOS formatted so ill just try some fairly standard
boot from my hard disk and see if I can see it.

Assuming its a hardware fault, whats the lowest level format I can do ?

I think it might have something bad on it, so Id like to do the equivalent of
marking sectors bad from FreeBSd and mounting it up then as a second drive.

I looked at the FAQ, and 







:wq