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Re: Old Quantum Prodrive 105S lowformat info. Anyone?
« on: January 19, 2004, 09:42:17 AM »
While Doomy and his postings do not need a new comment, there is something on the topic I would like to add.

SCSI may very well be low-level formatted. I did that on my PC for quite some time when I had problems with my drive, i.e. I had problems getting rid of some partitions under MS-DOS.

It worked, and IIRC SCSI drives may be low-level-formatted, which IDE would not allow in the old days. It was one of the reasons I was so proud 'back in 1995 or so of my Adaptec 2940, i could do things the "usual" PC could not do.

Though on the other hnd, it usually doesn't get you anywhere, unless in a very few cases. I always used "verify drive" in combination with low-level format because I thought there driver errors.

So yes, you can low-level format SCSI drives, but most of the time there is no need to so.


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