Hi,
Someone in this group wrote:
>>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.
BUT: If you have a Sonnet Trio ATA-controller which
appears as a SCSI-device to the system, the "Zero all
data" option is very much alive. Would this mean I could
kill my drives with the Apple harddisk utility?
Just curious, I have a Trio in my beige.
Another question: what would be more efficient if you
have two IDE-drives connected to the Trio, have them on
both busses as masters or on one bus as master & slave?
No difference at all?
I expected more speed out of the Trio-card but apparently
I could have stuck with the mobo-IDE as the limiting
factor seems to be the PCI-speed which is 33 Mhz. Or am I
wrong?
BTW to respond to another thread here:
I also killed a 4 gig Quantum Atlas once
low-level-formatting it with HDT. Probably it was flaky
to begin with but the low-level format can make a
SCSI-harddisk unusable, too. I resurrected it with the
option "remap bad blocks" or somesuch which took ages but
it definitely killed the disk when I did the next
"low-level format" ...
J�rg.
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