inkleput{at}isp.com wrote:

>Ed Durrant  said:
>  
>
>>Just low level format the drive.
>>    
>>
>
>Any idea how that's done on a TP 770?
>

Hi Jim,

AFAIR, the IBM [Hitachi Global Technology Services{?}] DFT [Drive 
Fitness Tool], has an option to zero the drive -  among the many things 
it does well - you just run an .exe file to create the DOS-Boot-floppy, 
and boot from it.

* Mon Apr 25 13:32:57 2005
  http://www.hitachigst.com/downloads/dft32_user_guide.pdf
* Mon Apr 25 13:50:59 2005
  http://www.hitachigst.com/downloads/dft32_v402_b00_install.img
* Mon Apr 25 14:06:45 2005
  http://www.hitachigst.com/downloads/ftool_197_insall.img
* Mon Apr 25 14:13:26 2005
  http://www.hitachigst.com/downloads/pbinstall.exe
* Mon Apr 25 14:21:45 2005
  http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/ftool_user_guide_197.pdf

HTH

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Mike

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