On 8/5/01 8:03 AM, "Greg Merritt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I ask because of this (scary) tidbit recently posted to the
> pci-powermacs list:
>
>> Use FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit to format your drive. It will low-level and
>> zero all data and initialize in one smooth operation.
As will Drive Setup.
>> Once you have doe this though, you must use HDTK to format that drive every
>> time, you cant switch between disk setup and HDDTK as this will ruin the
>> drive
Can't see how this would be true - you're changing the information written
on the drive, not the hardware. Was there any more information, like what
damage is actually done?
My Barracuda was originally formatted with HDT, and I switched to Drive
Setup w/o problems when I upped to OS 9.
Maybe the poster was thinking of a low-level on an ATA drive - which will
render it useless, I understand. Drive Setup only lets you do a low-level on
a SCSI Drive.
Cheers - Steve K.
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