On (23 Dec 96) Rick Collins wrote to The Visionary...
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tv> Using the /U switch on an EIDE drive will trash the on-drive BIOS
tv> enhancing features, and turn your nice 9ms EIDE drive into a
tv> 14ms
 RC> Tell me you're making this stuff up.
I see no way that it could happen, But he could be trying to LOW 
LEVEL format?  Now that could mess up a EIDE drive.  But Format c: 
/u will not mess with the tracks outside the partition that is 
being formated.
Gordon
... Programming is like SEX: One mistake and you support it.
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