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Re: Low level initilization of disk....how long?
- Subject: Re: Low level initilization of disk....how long?
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 28 Apr 2002 08:36:51 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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John Arnold asked (regarding his Mac):
>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...
You're right--low-level formatting is almost certainly _not_ the solution.
It's much more likely that the termination or ID's are messed up.
>But...
>
>It's been 1-1/2 hours since starting on the first drive....how long is this
>going to take?
A long time. It is very seldom necessary, or even a good idea, to
low-level format a modern high-capacity drive.
-michael
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