RE: Explaing the difference in PC vs AS/400 disk... $$$$$$

At 10:45 AM 9/1/97 +1000, James Turnbull wrote:
>This sounds like yet another "trust me I work for IBM" SE line.  All you
>need to do is a low level format.  I would guess he was trying to do you
>out of your drives.

Well, maybe... but *I* don't know how to do a LL format of a SCSI drive.  I
was always under the impression that the formatting was done at the factory
(like IDE) and they didn't include any formatting code in the controller BIOS.

It's moot now anyway...

david
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