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- From: tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Tooraj Enayati)
- Subject: Re: How can I low-level format IDE drive ?
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Nov1.194255.8799@menudo.uh.edu> <sauron.720737823@femto.engr.mun.ca> <1d4brjINNb6c@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <92308.035019DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:30:06 GMT
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- <DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
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- >In article <1d4brjINNb6c@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, pauls@css.itd.umich.edu
- >(Paul Southworth) says:
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- >>In article <sauron.720737823@femto.engr.mun.ca> sauron@femto.engr.mun.ca
- >>(Patrick Ryan) writes:
- >>>wjin@cs.uh.edu (W. Woody Jin) writes:
- >>>
- >>>You can't. You can repartition your drive, and you can reformat the
- >>>partitions, but you cannot (and DEFINITELY should not) low-level an IDE.
- >>>Not unless you are a card-carrying, certified guru (or masochist) :v).
- >>>SHouldn't this be a FAQ?
-
- >Well, that's simply silly. The "Format Track" command is in the ATA spec
- >for a reason. The result of the command is completely up to the drive,
- >of course; many drives will simply ignore it. In any case the drive will
- >know to do the "right thing", so I can't envision what harm could be
- >caused. It's no different than telling a SCSI drive to format itself,
- >and I'm not aware of any paranoia associated with that.
-
- I agree completely. I have a WD Caviar280 I have low level formated it
- twice in the last year and half. Both time I had no other option.
- Once I was tring to install an MFM card in the system and its controller
- card stuffed up my IDE hd's FAT nothing could recognize that the
- drive was there both times I used the disk manager and I don't even have
- a bad sector on the drive.
-
- Just don't send me mail I have heard this and that. But I'd love to
- hear from any one who has LL formated an IDE drive and by doing so
- he has stuffed up the drive.
-
- That is all folks.
-
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- Tooraj Enayati Melbourne Australia tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au
- Monash University Robotic and Digital Technology (Graduate/Alumni)
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