[net.micro.pc] Low Level Format for PC-AT Hard Disks

mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) (12/18/85)

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I have an AT and recently purchased a CMI 40 Meg. drive for it.  CMI tells me
that I have to buy the IBM Advanced Diagnostics disk to do the Low Level
Format on it and to mark the bad sectors on the drive map.

Is there a public domain low level format utility for the AT?

I managed to get a friend who works for an IBM dealer to let me borrow one
of these Diagnostics Disks (v. 2.07) and it didn't seem to be the right one.
CMI says the highest version is 1.05 of the correct one.  Does anyone know
why there seems to be two series of Advanced Diagnostics Disks?

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