| From: | Xavier Messersmith |
| Date: | 2 Jan 2000 at 15:48:51 |
| Subject: | Re: Maxtor drive |
From: Xavier Messersmith <xcaliber@xav.to>
On 02-Jan-00, John & Jenny Wasilewski wrote:
>> NEVER, I repeat NEVER low level format. Just run HDToolBox to
>> partition it and do a normal format.
Sounds rather alarmist to me.
I've lowlevel formatted quite alot, I'm still here. :-)
>>> it.. I have an amiga 4000, and it has a ide controler built in.
>
> I am aware that Low-levelformatting can do damage but I seem to
> remember that this applies EITHER to IDE drives OR to SCSI drives but
> not to both of them. Is that the case?
I don't know about IDE, too archiac for me to bother without having a good
reason.
> If it is, then is it SCSI or IDE than should never never be L-L-F'ed?
I use SCSI exclusively, and whenever I lowlevel I typically end up with a
drive with less problems.
> Also, remind me, someone, please... What IS low-level formatting, and
For SCSI, lowlevel formatting is typically instructing the drive to check
itself for errors and map them to alternate reserved blocks.
There seems to be another form of lowlevel formatting that is typically only
done at the factory that is essentially a lowlevel formatting.
> why does it harm disk?
Why does formatting harm a disk, why does replacing bad blocks with good ones
cause apocalyptic results?
I don't know either. :-)
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