Writing Zeros to a drive will not kill it (unless it's hopelessly corrupt to start with). What you are thinking of is "Low Level Format." In Apple disk utilities the Low Level Format is grayed out for non-SCSI drives.
And the reason for this is explained in several Apple tech notes. The low level format does a write-zero/verify pass that's redundant with the other write-zero option. It has nothing to do with "you can't low-level format an IDE drive".
- Dan.
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