At 8:07 +1100 20/03/03, John Smith wrote: >Lets just move on shall we? Well, not quite yet. I didn't have the time to follow this thread when it... hmmm, - escalated. Today I finally read all the messages, and have to add my personal experiences.
First of all, 9.0.4 and 9.1 will _not_ let me do a low level format on either my PB 1400/G3 or my Beige G3 Tower. 8.5.1 did let me do it to the 30 gb Samsung IDE drive that was in my Beige when I bought it second hand 3 years ago in May. The drive was barely 5 months old and had developed bad blocks (according to Doc Norton), and was crashing all the time during boot if virtual memory was turned on. I had a vague memory of some warnings about low level formatting of IDE drives. Went to Samsung's website, and found them recommending low level formatting if bad blocks occured. Thus, I happily went on. Well actually I went to bed while the formatting took it's time, - for more than four hours... Then it ran for a couple of days, and there were bad blocks again, and it continued, no sort of formatting would keep the bad blocks from returning. I had it replaced under warranty. The new drive lasted about 6 months, then it started chirping so loudly that I didn't trust it anymore (it's actually still running in my friends Sawtooth), and replaced it with a 30 gb Maxtor, which lasted about 16 months before it went tick-tock on me. Surprisingly it had a 3 year warranty, and I had it replaced (by their mistake with a 7200 rpm one :-)) Now I'm on my 4th drive in this Mac, don't say IDE drives don't die... Don't know about the newer SCSI drives, but the old Conner in my IIfx had been running for 40.000 hours when I handed it over to some kids. It sounds like a jet, but it's still running...! BTW, what's inside the old floppy connected 20 mb Apple drive that I had on my Mac Plus? Still running both of them too. Tina *^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^* Tina Holm, Pederstrup Djurs, DK. http://www.nehaia.dk/ Links for Peace New! - http://www.peaceuk.net/ New! - http://www.moveon.org/declaration/ - Tell them NO! New! - http://www.beastieboys.com/ - A song for peace http://www.moveon.org/windowlight/ - Windowlights for peace More links: http://www.nehaia.dk/peace *^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^* -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
