Re: Hard Drive Format

[90taobri@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca (Brian Tao)]

The following revelation escaped Howard Feiges's lips:
> 
> that is.... does there exist a utility for the appleIIgs that will low-level
> format a hard drive while preserving the data at the same time...

    I don't know of any such utility, but it doesn't seem too difficult
to write.  Read a track, format the track, write the track, verify the
track and repeat.  Seems pretty simple.

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