Re: How to low level format a hard drive?

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From: Mike Berger
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:44

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potts@itl.itd.umich.edu (Paul Potts) writes:
>In article <Bs5tsH.6xE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:
>>ron@vicorp.com (Ron Peterson) writes:
>...
>>Isn't that a SCSI drive?  First, you probably can't use standard
>>DOS functions to do anything with it.  Secondly, low-level 
>>formatting SCSI disks is usually not a good idea, and rarely
>>helpful.  Start with the diagnostics that came with your
>>SCSI controller.

>It is IDE, and not SCSI, disks that shouldn't be low-level formatted.
>(They sure make it difficult too).
>-- 
For modern drives, neither SCSI nor IDE drives should be low-level
reformatted under most circumstances.  Since formatting is a
high-level SCSI feature, many drives are programmed to ignore a
reformat command (and return a status of ok) anyway.
--
	Mike Berger
	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
	AT&TNET     217-244-6067
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu

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