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From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: hard reading error
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On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> As Richard Chang wrote:
> 
> > > Basically yes, if you *hardware reformat* your drive at the point i've
> > > marked with an (*) above.
> 
> > 	Hmmm, would't the program in the FreeBSD installation program 
> > before it adds the distribution after fdisk do the same thing?
> 
> No.  No known (to me) operating system does hardware-format the hard
> disk before installing.

	So, is this the same as the low level format?

Richard