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Offline DoogUK

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Re: A Cautionary Tale - Hard Drive strategies
« on: February 10, 2009, 08:39:22 PM »
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Low-level formatting is for SCSI drives.  This is incompatible with all IDE drives regardless of their age.



Not true, when hard drives used to cost serious money i often bought back unusable IDE drives by low level formatting.
a1200T/040@40/64mb/10 gig/CWB
a600/3.5mb/3.25gb
a1200/blizz 040@40/128mb/4gb compact flash/CWB A4000/40
 

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Re: A Cautionary Tale - Hard Drive strategies
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2009, 08:42:26 PM »
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SamuraiCrow wrote:
Low-level formatting is for SCSI drives.  This is incompatible with all IDE drives regardless of their age.



Not true, when hard drives used to cost serious money i often bought back unusable IDE drives by low level formatting.
a1200T/040@40/64mb/10 gig/CWB
a600/3.5mb/3.25gb
a1200/blizz 040@40/128mb/4gb compact flash/CWB A4000/40