Indeed. My point of reference was a book on hard drives written back in '92. And the author of the book found out the hard way what happened when one low level formats an IDE drive..
It stopped workng. ---------- >From: nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Lowlevel format >Date: Wed, Feb 04, 2004, 11:30 > > > -- And you would be correct in that thought. After a bit more research on > tomshardware.com, I've found that IDE/EIDE drives made after '98, will skip > past the cyl/head/boot partition map when doing a lowlevel format. > > on 2/4/04 1:22 PM, David P at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> it does all that too. but IDE drives are a special case. mind you, i think >> IDE drives are intelligent enough to "fool" the software into thinking it's >> doing a low level format. it steps the heads and stuff just *i think* >> doesn't acutally do any wrirting. >> >> ---------- >>> From: Bill's In th' House Connelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Subject: Re: Lowlevel format >>> Date: Wed, Feb 04, 2004, 11:09 >>> >> >>> I was under the impression that a low-level formatting causes the drive >>> to "map out" its bad sectors, so that another program won't try to use >>> them ... sort of makes them invisible ... >>> >>> maybe just repeating what others have said ... >>> >>> it does remove any possibility of recovering any data from previous >>> usage ... which is what some people want, as well ... >>> >>> Bill >>> >>> On Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at 04:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> In a message dated 2/4/04 12:56:41 AM, >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> writes: >>>> >>>> << >>>> if you've got an IDE drive, you can kiss goodbye to all your data. and >>>> the >>>> chance of >>>> reusing the drive as a low level format erases EVERYTHING - including >>>> the >>>> drive's own special software. >>>>>> >>>> >>>> Low level format is inhibited by those drives which cannot be low-level >>>> formatted. >>>> >>>> Just about every SCSI drive may be low-level formatted, and some >>>> EIDE/UATA >>>> drives can as well. 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