Re: The Magical Ghost Partition

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:22:58 +0100, Claus Dragon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>While forming in a straight line, Polychromic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:

>>Unless they are SCSI, low-level formatting is not physically possible.
>>The closest you can get is to use the vendor's drive wiping tool.
>
>really? i think i remember an old ami bios having the option to format
>the hard disk ... that is what i was referring at. messed it up with
>the scsi low-level format, though ....

Yes, IDE drives just ignore that BIOS screen llf command.  Sometimes
you might see a drive manufacturer website mention llf with regard to
their diagnostic tool but all it really means is that tool will do a
wipe of the drive to force the defect map to be updated.  You're not
writing new servo tracks and sectors out on the disk.  

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