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From: "Pedro M. Rodrigues" <pmanuel@myrealbox.com>
To: Wayne Whitney <whitney@math.berkeley.edu>,
        Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:53:18 +0100
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   Just curious but what can a selfttest mode and consequent block 
test do to inspire you such worry? Are we dealing with the mob or 
something of the sort when we buy an IBM 75GXP disk? 


/Pedro

On 27 Nov 2001 at 13:52, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> 
> 
> What you have done is trigger a process to have the device go into a
> selftest mode to perform a block test.  I would tell you more but I
> may have exposed myself already.
> 

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