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- From: behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)
- Subject: Re: No, no.. Not an IDE drive!
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:05:24 GMT
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- taob@terranet.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:
-
- [About the problem of IDE drives not to be low-level formatted by user]
-
- > But something *could* go wrong. Our user group's monthly Hardware
- >SIG meeting usually sees at least two or three bad drives.
-
- Bad drives or bad file systems? If the former: Eek. What mechanisms are
- these?
-
- > Most of the time, the problem can be fixed simply by backing up the
- > data and doing a low-level format.
-
- Well. What kind of error would require a low-level format, really? If
- your file-system gets screwed up, all you have to do is re-format your
- media ... high-level. If some blocks are bad, they are locked out (happens
- seldom, to say the least). I do not see the problem, really.
- Ask some people who use IDE drives .. do they send their drives in con-
- stantly because it screwed up? No. With a normal, healthy drive, there is
- usually (meaning in near to 100%) of the cases absolutely no reason through-
- out the lifetime of the drive to low-level format it again.
-
- Soenke
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