On Jan 6, 2004, at 10:16 pm, John Niven wrote:
The best way to format a mac drive is with a pc and it doesn't take forever and a day to do, if you have access to a pc with a scsi card then nuke the drive completely, test it with real formatting tools and the initalize on the mac.
Low-Level Formatting a drive takes forever on anything. It is not the computers responsibility, it only issues a standard command then waits for the drive to come back to the 'Ready' status.
Fascinating! How does a PC format differ from an Apple one? What tools would you use on a PC? Could you bring it down a level and be more specific than "nuke the drive", so we can learn something?
The phrase 'Nuke & Pave' is a techie term for Low Level Formatting and then Writing Zeros to the disk. To Nuke therefore is to Low Level format. This can often clear up errors that occur reading from and writing to the drive, assuming they are in the format of the drive not the actual disk surface, but will 'nuke' everything on the drive, including the Apple Drivers and the partition map, hence the phrase.
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