on 12/12/00 00:47, Tom Ethen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Laurent,
> Having not followed this from the beginning, I am sending this just to you.
> Have you
> tried hard drive tool kit, by first using the mounting section to simply
> access the
> drive, then use the tool kit to initialize the drive, after which it should be
> accessible to you.
> Tom
>
> Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>
>> on 11/12/00 15:00, Marc Sira at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>>> A while back I bought a Maxtor 13gig IDE drive for a desktop Mac. One of
>>>> the
>>>> warning I got from someone was not to do a low-level format of the drive as
>>>> this could render it "unseeable" by the Mac. Seem like it wipes out drivers
>>>> or does something to block zero but I can't recall exactly as it's been a
>>>> while.
>>>>
>>>> That warning just sticks in my mind about not doing a low level format on
>>>> an
>>>> IDE drive that is not made specifically for the Mac.
>>>>
>>>> You may need to find someone with a Windoze laptop and have them reformat
>>>> it. Then put it back in your PowerBook and initialize it as described
>>>> above.
>>>
>>> This is simply not true. A driver installer utility (Drive Setup,
>>> HDT, Anubis, etc) can see the drive if it's present and functioning;
>>> it doesn't need a driver or any particular contents. Indeed, that's
>>> the whole point. The Finder can't see any disk volumes until the disk
>>> is partitioned by one of those utilities, though. Drive Setup itself
>>> "wipes out drivers and does something to block zero".
>>>
>>> Second, there is no way to do a low-level format on an IDE drive -
>>> the drive has no concept of it (unlike a SCSI drive). This is why the
>>> option is dimmed in Drive Setup. The most you can do is write zeros
>>> to every block, which is probably a waste of time unless you've just
>>> bought a new blank drive and want to test it for bad blocks (and
>>> there are better ways to do that too). Drive Setup will always
>>> rewrite any or all of block zero, the partition table, and the
>>> contents of the driver partitions when you do something to the disk
>>> anyway.
>>>
>>> Offhand it sounds like Laurent's disk has simply kicked the bucket.
>>
>> That's pretty much what I think. It's just a bit surprising that it did this
>> all of a sudden, but I guess that's the nature of mechanic and why you
>> should do backups. Fortunately for me, I didn't have anything important on
>> the drive, so it's not too bad, about $70 lost. I will survive I think...
>>
No, Tom, I haven't, since I don't have it. I did try the APS tools that did
help me in the past, but not this time. I think that the problem has to do
with the fact that the drive seems to be spinning very slowly. It doesn't
emit the sound I'm used to hear when it's on.
Anyway, I don't have much time to take care of it right now, I might spend
additional time later, but I doubt I'll have this free time...
Thanks for your suggestion, though. I really appreciate people taking the
time to help me out.
-Laurent.
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