low-level formatter for linux

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Tim wrote:

> You could, of course, try running Windows on the drive.  It seems
> excellent at destroying data without even trying.

i agree.

that was one of good things about mfm drives. running low-level formatting
after they crashed and would not take a regular format.

it got to a point that when ever i had a system crash, i would not bother
with regular formatting, just pull out oem disk, run low-level to insure
that bad sectors were written to table and the regular format.

-- 

peace out.

tc,hago.

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