At 11:50 PM 2/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Joe wrote:
At 02:05 PM 2/18/99 -0800, you wrote:
HP was fond of formatting hard drives at 256 bytes/sector. That is likely
the case with your ST-419.
Yes, this one uses 256 bytes/sector but wouldn't reformatting it take
care of that?
Low-level formatting can. A normal "format" is not low-level.
That's true for MS DOS but what about on a non-MS DOS HP computer?
Joe
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