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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: How to low level format a hard drive?
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- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:44:15 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.212927.7988@vicorp.com> <Bs5tsH.6xE@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Jul29.195434.3180@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
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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.
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- Mike Berger
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