On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:06 PM, insightinmind wrote:
> > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 7:12 PM, Charles Davis wrote: > >> >> >> On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Dan wrote: >> >>> >>> That's re-initializing a drive. You cannot reformat modern drives. >>> >>> The process of zeroing it -- writing zeros to each sector on the >>> drive causes the hardware's bad block replacement mechanism to >>> trigger as needed. >>> >> What isn't being said here, is whether the 'bad block' mechanism is >> operational when zeroing at the partition level, or only when the >> complete hard disk is being 'zeroed'. > > Good point. > > I've always assumed partitions were being treated like a separate > volume, and was being re-mapped. > That's the way I'd like it to be, which means that the 'Bad Blocks' routines probably only work when Zeroing the complete Hard Disk. Please note, I'm talking about the 'Write Zeros' operation, NOT just 'Erasing' ---[ Which is just Zeroing out the directory data, not elimination the 'bit patterns' on the platter surface.] Chuck D. > Gurus? > > Bill Connelly > artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio > myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
