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

["Bryan Parkoff" <BParkoff@satx.rr.com>]

Reinvent to support 320GB on ProDOS beyond limitation of 32MB.

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Bryan Parkoff
BParkoff@satx.rr.com
Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote in message
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> 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
>