Mark, Sorry to hear about the drive... got a couple of my own... However they can still be useful. I've found that when someone who considers themself knowledgable in computers comes over, I hand them one of the bad hdd's and accidently "drop" it in the process. The look on their face makes the fact that I've lost the drive worth something at least.
James On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:18:32 -0500 (EST) Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Ken Thompson wrote: > > >On Monday 04 February 2002 07:36 am, you wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> It's generally not a good idea to use the low level formatting feature of > >> some system board bioses. You might lose the factory skew settings put on > >> your disk at the factory when they did the factory low level format. The > >> system board bioses I have seen do not call the proprietary factory format > >> routines on the hard disk; at least not the ones that I have seen. And > >> I've seen a few. > >> > >> Sesame Galeo recommended a debug routine. If that works, it's the best > >> way, because that command sequence is routing you to the hard drive's > >> formatting routine in it's firmware. > > > > I don't think debug will work with the IDE or ATAPI drives, will it? > >As far as I remember, the format stuff for debug was designed for MFM and RLL > >drives usually found in 286 or older systems.. > >I could be way off base here as I haven't used that command for nearly 8 > >years <G>.... > >The absolute best way is to use the utility from the mfgr because it is > >designed to work with the proper size and series of drive you have. > > > > well...as it turns out after performing a LL format on this drive, a > Maxtor 13.5 Gig, the best I could get out of it was 2GB's. I found the > utility on Maxtor's website, which in itself I thought was amazing > considering their site is ridiculous to navigate. > > It didn't seem to help at all since after the LL format the drive was > still convinced that it was a 2GB drive. On the off chance it was the BIOS > on the machine that I was working on the drive with I brought the drive to > work with me and checked it out. No joy. That drive is shot and a new one > is already on the way. > > but, thanks for all the reponses. > > daRcmaTTeR > > >
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