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Re: Low level initilization of disk....how long?



John Arnold wrote:
> 
> Just hooked up my two new Medea 320 Gb SCSI drives.  Couldn't do the normal
> initialize, so I've had to go to the "Low Level Initialize".
> 
> Darn!
> 
> Can't imagine that they're both broke/corrupted with bad sectors.  Must be
> the size?  I'm doing it with only 1 partition, as eventually they will be
> "striped" with my AVID (video editing) drive utility...
> 
> But...
> 
> It's been 1-1/2 hours since starting on the first drive....how long is this
> going to take?
> 
> Thanks!

Well first you're in an Apple II, not a Mac newsgroup. You'd be better 
posting to one of the comp.sys.mac groups.

If the 80gb drive I low level formatted a while back is any indication
then 
you'll likely be done sometimes tommorrow.

	Wayne