On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Jim Meagher wrote:
> When technology introduced the IDE type drive, this low
> level structure was pre-installed by the factory (and still is).
> Using the HDFORMAT program on an IDE drive *WILL* ruin it.
>
My Award Bios for a 486 has format routines available as one of sveral
different options availble on the CMOS setup screen. Is this an LLformat
or a DOS format. Presumably meant to be used with IDE drives ...?
Regards
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