Re: Hard Drive Format

[90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)]

The following revelation escaped Dave Huang's lips:
> 
> Also, though I'm not positive, I don't think SCSI lets you low level
> format a specific track, just the whole thing. 

    That might very well be true (if the low-level format consists of a
single SCSI command).  Maybe you could simulate a low-level format by
writing out zeroes to the track and verifying it after?

> Hmm.... don't Quantum drives ignore a low level format request?

    Not the Quantum drive I had.  I did a low-level format on it three
times when I had it.

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