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From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@rocinante.digex.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/10/1996 17:30:04

On April 10, you wrote:
> Why can't you just format the drive on a PC system?  All you'd need to know
> presumably is the interleave.

  Nope...Different disk controller designs format their disks
differently.  In this case, *very* differently.  Sector layouts, bad
block handling, numbering...many differences.

                        -Dave McGuire
                         mcguire@digex.net