From: Cottrell, Eric (ecottrell_at_Doble.com)
Date: Mon Nov 24 1997 - 11:33:33 EST
>I don't know about that. I've low level formatted IDE, MFM, RLL, and SCSI
>drives with no problems,
>and just fdisk it with OS/2 or Linux's fdisk util. But I am sure that a
>magnet would still do
>damage. If you want the data really badly, send the drive to ontrack data
>recovery or a similiar company.
>
>Paul
>
Well most IDE drives do not allow low level formatting like you could do
with MFM drives.
There was one IDE drive maker that had a low level format program that
could be used
on some of the smaller capacity (i.e. older) IDE drives.
>73 Eric ecottrell_at_doble.com
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