Hi Stephen,
On Saturday 26 November 2005 22:23, Stephen Bird wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:14:36 +0000, Gaffer wrote:
> >Another good way to make sure that the disk is clean, is to use the
> >manufacturers HDD tools and let that do a low level format.
>
> I always thought it was only a program like SpinRite that did low
> level format and that a manufacturer's utility was more of a "wipe"
> program writing zeros and ones. I suppose the end result is the same
> - a completely clean drive. :-)
Not quite !!
The manufacturers utility is able to relocate bad blocks by "sparing" to
hidden cylinders. Which other tools cannot do ! But as you say the
end result is essentially the same.
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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