"JEAN PARROT" wrote to "MIKE ROSS" (04 Jan 03  10:02:00)
 --- on the topic of "ll format ?"

 MR> All, hdc's in the early days MFM, RLL, ESDI (esdi is really rll) had
 MR> the ll format utility

 JP> I was not aware of this capability in the old days. I had one MFM
 JP> drive at the start but never even needed to format it.

Sometimes wierd things happened to those MFM drives which needed a ll
format. For instance the cat might jump on the pc while you were dl'ing
some warez, the heads may have plowed a few fat sectors, and viruses
loved to play with INT13... among others, etc.


 JP>  How can YOU do a ll now or were you
 JP> talking about an old drive ?

I was just fishing for help from an old timer about this old esdi drive.
Guess, they're all off to the information super highway...

 Mike
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