On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Al Poulin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Years ago, good folks recommended that we reformat new drives to hide > any bad blocks or sectors. Today, is it advisable to reinitialize and > erase with zeros? Or do the manufacturers take care of this before > sale? > > Thanks, > Al Poulin > > > >
I think you refer to a "low-level" format. That is no longer done. hdd today are initialized at the factory and have intelligence to keep track of bad spots just put your partitions and fs of choice on it and use -- -- NOT sent from an iphone,blackberry,Nokia, or any handheld. -- I'm a PC(x86 AND ppc) AND I RUN LINUX!!! Linux is like ice cream. It comes in many flavors and everyone has their favorite, but we all get the same smile regardless of which we choose to scoop. - Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon - "You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell." - http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/40335.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
