On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:01:41 +0200, Robert Bonomi
<[email protected]> wrote:
I haven't had occasion to dissect a copy of format in years, I don't know
if it still defaults to one write attemptto every sector on the disk.
"By default in Windows Vista, the format command writes zeros to the whole
disk when a full format is performed."
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941961/en-us
With the addition of the "passes"-switch, this seems to imply "one write
attempt per sector", but I didn't find any explicit statement to that
accord.
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