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From: A.Dergatc...@tn.utwente.nl (Andrei A. Dergatchev)
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Subject: Re: Mysterious behavior of "reassign" for ST173404FC drive. Advise sought.
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:39:50 GMT
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>Now that you've changed the block size to 512, have you tried the host
>adapter's low-level format utility? 

Yes :-)
This is working fine now, I did change block size
to 512 bytes and reformatted a few times already
(06 00 00 00 00 00 (or how many zeroes are there)
was clearly visible, and completed after ~2 hours).
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Regards,

Andrei