Re: Hard Drive Format

[mills@MAX.EE.LSU.EDU (John Mills)]

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	In article <b601656@pro-gumbo.cts.com> tgeer@pro-gumbo.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:
	>In <1knsm6INNgp5@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
	>daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Huang) writes:
	>>Hmm.... don't Quantum drives ignore a low level format request?
	>
	>No, they don't.  I have low-level formatted mine several times.

	And it actually did the format? When I first got my Quantum Pro 105, I
	used the program on the RamFAST ROM to do a low level format, and I
	remember it taking only a second or so... much too fast for it to
	actually have done a low level format. Maybe it only clears out the
	partitioning info or something?

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Yea, it did the EXACT same thing with my NCS-Pro 120 (Connor) drive. It
could be the RamFAST not doing a whole format.
--- John M.

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