Whoa, Paul, living very dangerously, maybe with a HD death wish :-)? How
often did drives become unformattable after this maneuver? That sounds too
dangerous even to post with a SOP disclaimer!
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Sidney Ho
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> Message Number: 3
> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 09:23:18 -0500
> From: Paul S Vail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: formatting tricks
> one old trick with HDT was to start the lowlevel format process, and
> interrupt it in the middle of formatting -- then trying the Apple
> formatter... seems if the HDT driver wasn't properly installed, the HDSC
> driver could then be used. Use this at your own risk! For older Apple
> disk formatters, the software had to see the Apple drive ROM chip or not
> work.
>
> paul
>
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