Tenacious:
I noticed that you have several pieces of GVP hardware.
The GVP expertprep software DOES allow you to low level format your hard drive.
The gvpscsi.device does allow for this.
I think you can use the expertprep with commodore's scsi devices
in a shell to type
expertprep scsi.device
however will the scsi rom in a commodore scsi allow for low level format? I don't remember.
I think Zac67 is correct; the low level format does zero the hard drive.
I also agree with Zac67 that the low level format is NOT necessary.
However it is nice to completely delete out old hard drives.
You could use a low level format to do this or use a degaussing coil.
I personally use a homemade degaussing coil, but have used low level format in the past on my GVP hardware.
Be careful with a degaussign coil. you could accidentally erase floppies for mess up your old CRT monitor.
